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The trick is precursor vehicles.. basically fire a stream of bullets at space and expect the precursors to annihilate any obstacles.
by PicassoCTs 5y ago
The trick is precursor vehicles.. basically fire a stream of bullets at space and expect the precursors to annihilate any obstacles.
- faceplanted 5y agoIs that a solution though? unless you send your ship instantly after those bullets another objects could still just come in from the side after they've passed, unless these bullets cover significantly more than the front facing area of your entire ship it won't work, and if you do send it directly in front of your ship immediately before your flight then you've just invented metal shields, and if they do hit something you're still going to be hitting shrapnel and spalling at appreciable fractions of the speed of light.
- UltraViolence 5y agoSince pieces of rock move this wouldn't be a foolproof solution.
- tmccrary55 5y agoYeah, we could use the same simple trick clear space debris from Earth's orbit!