Due to it’s slow rotation it actually completes a full rotation of the sun before it itself fully rotates.

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    Pretty sure it also spins the “wrong way” compared to all the other planets, probably a massive impact at some point stopped it spinning and sent it backwards slowly

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      That’s a good observation. I think you’re right. It really is insane how much evidence of impacts and other forms of geological trauma is extant on other worlds

      Makes you imagine if the galaxies didn’t spin so slow (relative to human timescales), we’d be watching rippling shrapnel as shit collides with one another in real time

      Space is so cool, fuck

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          I think (although I could be wrong), that that film was trying to depict that Superman was flying so fast that he went back in time. And the best visual they could come up with was that the earth was spinning “backwards” in order to depict this.

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          this is, in fact, not true. Studies have shown, that there are no toilets on venus and - as a result - there is no toilet water that could swirl. [citation needed]

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      Could this also have contributed to the massive greenhouse effect it has?