How would you renovate the solar system? That is....if you had unlimited power....

me- I'd put Europa closer to the sun
move Venus farther away from the sun....give it a moon from Jupiter or Saturn....

lots of possibilities....silly thread I know

Put Mercury in orbit around Venus and move both to a more temperate locale. Add more comets so the night sky is more exciting but get rid of most of the asteroids - "vermin of the sky", as they used to be called.

Whack a comet into Mars to start the terraforming process.

That's enough for starters.

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Put the Venus/Mercury system into our orbit at either of the Lagrange points L4 or L5. While we're at it trade our Moon for Callisto or Ganymede (but put it into orbit farther away so that the tides are about the same as present). Mercury and our new moon might be able to hold an atmosphere for a while. This gives us five respectable-sized bodies that we could live on (Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars, replacement for our Moon).

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How about switching our moon for Titan? The prospect for watching that world develop in a more temperate environment is very tempting for me.

Move Jupiter further in and put earth in orbit around it (hopefully far enough away to avoid the radiation belts) just for the view. Put Venus in the same orbit as earth at L4 and put Mars and Europa or Maropa squished together to make one good planet at L5. (Imagine the fishing.) Put Saturn's rings around Jupiter, again just for the view, but maybe also for the ice. Better drop a lot of oort cloud objects into Venus to make it wet. Clear out the other jovian satellites before they make trouble. Keep some asteroids around so we can watch them smack into Jupiter.

In addition to fixing up the house, I would fix up the neighborhood. Put a G-type star about 0.3 to 0.5 lightyears away and give it a solar system with at least one Earth-like planet.

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I'd like to put the planets in orbits according to Bode's law, would make it much easier to remember the distances Oh, and sort the planets by size, though it might get a bit cold... maybe the Dark Star crew could take care of Mars and Pluto?

And the shag carpeting absolutely MUST go! It's SOOoo 1970's!

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Well, since you are a Celestial Mechanic, you would be the perfect contractor for this job. We might have to hire a Quantum Mechanic if we want to make any changes to the Sun's fusion cycle.

Maybe a cable science channel and a home improvement channel could team up for a "Fix up your solar system" reality show.

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I´d put two additional Moons around Earth, with (different) angular sizes spanning tens of degrees.

I´d also bring Mars a little closer.

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Switch Earth and Mars... solves Earth's global warming problem and warms up Mars!

Put Titan in orbit around Earth, as well as Enceladus, just to watch the water fountains (I'm guessing they'd be water and not ice if they were this close to the Sun?).

And speed up Venus' rotation. Seriously, don't you think having a day longer than a year is just screwed up?

And drop Pluto into the Great Red Spot, because then we wouldn't have to worry about this whole "What Is A Planet" thing, since Neptune would be the furthest planet, and NOTHING in the Kuiper Belt can match Neptune for size!

And if anything else shows up purporting to be a planet, we dump it, too!

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Exactly...

Jupiter, the universe's first natural garbage disposal unit!

There are probably some black holes that would claim priority on that title.

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*smacks forehead*

Dumbest mistake I've made in a while, that.

Let's say "the solar system's first natural garbage disposal unit!"

I also would take Themisto and Callirhoe off Jupiter and put them in orbit around Mercury, and take Enceladus and Iapetus off Saturn and give them to Venus. So nobody's lonely. (Aw, how nice...)

Get rid of all those pesky asteroids!!!

I say more asteroids! And they should be closer together, and extremly bouncy. That way they'll look like an asteroid field in a science fiction movie but their bounciness will stop them cohereing before I've had a chance to fly my TIE fighter through them in pursuit of some pesky rebels.