Would terraforming Venus really be as "simple" as reversing it's rotation?

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(Obviously "simple" is a relative term here)

Just randomly remembered a post from a few years back, claiming that reversing it's rotation to be more like the other planets in the system would already do a lot to make it more hospitable.

Of course, that wouldn't fix the toxic air, pressure from 90x Earth atmospheres, constant lightning, acid rain, etc., but how much would it actually do to the temperature? And followup, how much would sending plants there do to fix the atmosphere?

We're clearly nowhere near being able to actually do any of that, and may not even be by the time it fixes its own rotation, so any answers would be totally theoretical. Just a curiosity, ya know? TIA

Posted Feb 17, 2017, 3:53 AM UTC

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