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madmen-asteroid eaters

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Tawakalna

Post Thu May 20, 2004 10:07 am

what a crazy and outlandishly expensive idea. makes for great sf though.

the answer is so obvious, just launch some or all of those nukes sitting around in fields in the Dakotas and the Ukraine, that should deal with any dam asteroid a lot better than fancy robots (and do us all a double favour)

..you shut your mouth, how can you say, I go about things the wrong way..

spinnaker

Post Thu May 20, 2004 2:17 pm

Why send all that money I'd just strap an engine on it, and send it on a different trajectory, much cheaper.

Wolf_Demon

Post Thu May 20, 2004 2:45 pm

ok final.. you're in one of those standard space shuttles, going at over 50km/s. what do you need to change your path? you're in space. you use booster rockets right ? those on the sides.. how much do you need? you're headed for the centre of the earth. you need to divert by about 6 degrees. the booster lets out say a tenth of the total shuttle mass in energy joules. (eg shuttle = 1000'000g, booster gives 10000J)

given the size of a world threatening rock hurling towards the planet at the same 50km/s, with all that ice clouds and all.. going over 5 billion tonnes.. just imagine how much fuel you'd need to diver the thing 6 degrees any direction. you also got the problem of embedding a thruster big enough, capable of delivering the required amount before doom.

in other words, its like lifting a rocket off the planet.. your fuel makes up more than 3 quarters of your total weight.

did you not even read the thread!? that is why it is almost impossible to do

kimk

Post Thu May 20, 2004 7:15 pm

the thing's got quite a bit of momentum you see, even if its a football field sized thingy, you're still looking at couple hundred tonnes of useless rock. or is it called the impulse i can't remember the right term, anyways, the greater the mass and velocity the greater a force you need to move it. in the case of a couple hundred tonnes, a slight nudge would possibly take a saturn V clas ramming into the thing.. ok maybe not that huge.

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