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I think what might finally send us to the asteroid belt will be the military. If we are able to pick an appropriate sized asteroid and deflect it off it's cours

I think what might finally send us to the asteroid belt will be the military. If we are able to pick an appropriate sized asteroid and deflect it off it's course, the asteroid can easily be accelerated using Mars or Venus or the Sun. We can take it anywhere we feel like. We can destroy any target on earth - as small as a city or as large as you want. The energy needed to deflect the asteroid is minuscule compared to the kinetic energy you can exert on your target. The ultimate WMD.

cousin_it 17y ago
Nukes are much cheaper.
- lutorm 17y ago
  Agreed. They also already exist in sufficient quantity to do whatever you'd imagine doing with an asteroid and still inhabit the Earth. Unless, of course, you don't have nukes. Maybe Iran should consider this? ;-)