Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), colloquially known as “America’s Dumbest Congressman” (for good reasons, as will be seen below), said in a congressional committee hearing on Tuesday, June 8, 2021,
“I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve found that the moon’s orbit is changing slightly, and so is the Earth’s orbit around the sun. We know there’s been significant solar flare activities, and so, is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate.”
Giant rocket engines? Well-placed nuclear explosives? Attaching a tow rope to the sun?
I’d be really careful. If you knock it off too much or in the wrong direction, we could fall into the sun or end up as a moon of Jupiter.
