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We’re going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to deflect it
- zw123456 7y agoIs anyone concerned about unintended consequences here? What if they deflect it and it bangs into another one which deflects another that then crashes into Earth ? Sort of the cosmic version of shooting yourself in the foot. Probably a long shot I suppose, but that popped into my mind.
- rolph 7y agoi would be more worried about intended consequences, such as getting so good at steering smaller bodies around and mathing out the trajectories , that it can be weaponized. The accidents , things like orbital procession, are likely to be far removed from the current generation, except for shrapnel from a shattered rocky body, and that is the most immediate concern i can think of happening accidentally. some of these things are not solid, but are like big bundles of rocks stuck together by dust and frozen matter.