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You can at least put something in its way and if it nopes around it to avoid a collision that’s pretty freaking interesting.
by flatiron 6y ago
You can at least put something in its way and if it nopes around it to avoid a collision that’s pretty freaking interesting.
- brians 6y agoAnd if it shoots back, that’s briefly interesting too.
- DennisAleynikov 6y agoclosest thing I read was one of these flying right between two fighter jets narrowly missing both, but also seemingly not course correcting or changing behaviour apparently.
- eloff 6y agoAgain, if we had the technology to do that it would be amazing. We can't generate even within a couple orders of magnitude of the acceleration needed to do that.
- mcbits 6y agoWe probably do have the technology (money is the hard part) to build a telescope array that spans the solar system, and to keep some rockets in standby orbits beyond Neptune. That would provide for earlier detection of an approaching object and a better chance of having a rocket close enough to intercept it.
- eloff 6y agoThe volume of space beyond Neptune is absolutely insane, and the speeds of interstellar objects (theoretical speeds that is, we don't have a large enough sample size to draw conclusions about how well that matches actual velocities) are also insane. We're very far from being able do this.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoAFAIK, Japan conducted an experiment of asteroid exploration by collision and it revealed chemical composition. But if it's not an asteroid, it might be seen as rude.
- eloff 6y agoThere's a huge difference between doing that and doing it with an interstellar object going incredibly fast and extremely far away.