Nah--we'd take a significant portion of the Pacific with us, don't forget. Bimeby it would settle out into a loverly atmosphere and we would be a lot like SoCal is today, safely in orbit and well-removed from a lot of the insanity. We'd have some of the most innovative engineers on Earth with us, too, so we could tool up a solar-driven economy, using the hot side of our landmass, and be happily oil-free.


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