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A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoThe best plan is to build 3 or 4 multi-functional probes now and just wait for the next interstellar rocks to come by and visit. No need to chase 3I/ATLAS.
- rzzzwilson 9mo agoThe "next interstellar rock" could take hundreds of years to appear. The cost of maintaining those probes could be very large, and interest in maintaining them would probably disappear quickly, humans being the short-term entities that we are.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agohttps://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/oumuamua/#:~:text=Astronomers%20estimate%20that%20an%20interstellar%20object%20similar%20to%20%E2%80%98Oumuamua%20passes%20through%20the%20inner%20solar%20system%20about%20once%20per%20year https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/oumuamua/#:~:te...