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I wonder if an antimatter collector could be built in space. Collect antimatter in a magnetic bottle and put that in a missile. Launch small, fast, powerful ant
by dghughes 4y ago
I wonder if an antimatter collector could be built in space. Collect antimatter in a magnetic bottle and put that in a missile. Launch small, fast, powerful antimatter missiles via maglev towards asteroids.
A triangular spaceship is not necessary.
- ianburrell 4y agoAntimatter is a really inefficient energy storage mechanism. Even if we figured out way to make it efficiently, it would still be super expensive. Nuclear weapons are efficient, they make energy, and comparatively cheap. Also, this mission was to demonstrate could move asteroid without large explosion. There is fear that most asteroid are loose rubble and would be blown apart by blast.