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Sure, I'm aware it would take an extraordinary amount of thrust, but the exact amount will depend on the acceleration and speed we want it to move. If we would
by imiric 3y ago
Sure, I'm aware it would take an extraordinary amount of thrust, but the exact amount will depend on the acceleration and speed we want it to move. If we would be willing to wait decades (centuries?) for it to reach us, it could possibly be done cheaply with solar sails.
And this wouldn't have to be anywhere near LEO/HEO to be useful. Getting it somewhere in the order of the distance to the Moon, or even much closer than Mars, would make mining and transportation that much cheaper.
We could even blow and transport chunks of it at a time instead of the whole thing, as a sibling comment mentioned. It's not much worth to us in its current location, so these missions are merely exploratory.
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago> Getting it somewhere in the order of the distance to the Moon, or even much closer than Mars, would make mining and transportation that much cheaper. Actually I disagree, placing an object "somewhere between the moon and mars" is at our current space ability, uselessly "out of reach". Perhaps there is a plan where this makes sense in the next century, but I think you're far far overestimating the utility of it and "what we can currently do".