[Dequibenzo]

Good points, all of them. We do have to practice a little suspended disbelief with fiction, I think that's a given. However, if I really wanted to grind a point in, I would've dug out my highschool astronomy notes (Which I did), and looked up the section on centrifigul vs gravitational forces (Which I have with me right now). Then, I would slap myself for forgetting about the Roche limit, which has a part that deals with a happy little speed that a planet's rotation cannot exceed without stripping itself of all sattelites and atmosphere, then eventually falling apart entirely, due to an incredibly massive tidal effect. And then I would look for about forty five minutes for the actual number associated with it before giving up in frustration and moving on because it's one AM and I'm tired. But I wouldn't do anything like that, because I also realize that it's just ficition, and I don't want to get kicked out for being too pissy about everything