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Is anyone concerned about unintended consequences here? What if they deflect it and it bangs into another one which deflects another that then crashes into Eart
by zw123456 7y ago
Is 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.