Which would also stop the asteroid hitting us as it’d move itself off track
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ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or further on course…
TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 1 month ago
If it shoots towards us it will therfore move away from us
Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Missiles don’t have that amount of kickback unlike guns since their propulsion comes gradually and from themselves.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
A bullet has roughly the kinetic energy of a punch
Surely a missile launch would be far higher due to the mass
bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 month ago
Historical revisionism at work:
The astroid shot first.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The probability of an asteroid firing in very low, but never zero.
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s not true. The probability of an asteroid firing is actually very high, but they’re very inaccurate.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The American military industrial complex is salivating right now
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Why now?
The US military already has satellites than can drop artificial asteroids onto Earth, causing large localised, hard to detect and prevent damage.
Space has sadly already been weaponised.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not officially, so one wonders how you got this info?
I mean, ICBMs are basically this, just unlaunched, but I doubt that’s your point.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, but that’s just what we do.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Beltalowdas
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
At last an Onion article that makes me smile instead of weep for the state of politics being so bad that complete and utter batshit crazy nonsense is so hard to tell from news these days.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rama strikes back
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Better get some cold water ready.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Rendezvous this!
Artyom@lemm.ee 1 month ago
If an asteroid fires a missile and it enters the atmosphere, is the rest of the asteroid considered a meteor?
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’m not saying I’m on team asteroid…
einlander@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But when 12.5 percent of the planets of the solar system commits 100% of the violence…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Holy fucking shit lmao what a reference
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 month ago
The (solar) system leaves them no other way of life! We need to make opportunities for them to orbit a stable planet and become moons.
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
But?