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Conversely, of course, the trajectory of a non-threatening near-Earth asteroid can be known well in advance, but there’s no obviously benign reason for anyone t
by disambiguously 7y ago
Conversely, of course, the trajectory of a non-threatening near-Earth asteroid can be known well in advance, but there’s no obviously benign reason for anyone to bring a lot of delta-v to one.
So having a steady traffic in commercial heavy lift could be a positive externality as well, for whoever wants to find a close-call asteroid that has been recently marked as 100% safe and give it a little nudge.
- samatman 7y agoMaking it easier for mustache-twirling supervillains to destroy Earth is not a concern of mine, personally. Weaponizing smallpox and distributing it in major airports is the lower bound of effort. Anything that exceeds this is not worth worrying about.