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Kenshkrix t1_j62fw1v wrote

Reply to comment by Sharlinator in Earth's inner core may be slowing down, but “Nothing cataclysmic is happening,” says Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at Australian National University. “The inner core is now more in sync with the rest of the planet than a decade ago when it was spinning a bit faster.” by clayt6

>There’s absolutely nothing that could make it actually stop.

Nah the Earth's core could theoretically be stopped.

Just throw several moons/planetoids at it. The first one or two to blast the surface out of the way, the next to counteract most of the angular momentum, and maybe another one to really fine-tune things.

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Sharlinator t1_j62quod wrote

You’d have to be gentle enough not to blast away too much of the core in the process. so I’d think many, many smaller bodies over a longer period of time could work better.

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