Which would also stop the asteroid hitting us as it’d move itself off track
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ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or further on course…
TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If it shoots towards us it will therfore move away from us
Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Missiles don’t have that amount of kickback unlike guns since their propulsion comes gradually and from themselves.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
Historical revisionism at work:
The astroid shot first.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The probability of an asteroid firing in very low, but never zero.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s not true. The probability of an asteroid firing is actually very high, but they’re very inaccurate.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The American military industrial complex is salivating right now
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah, but that’s just what we do.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Beltalowdas
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Rama strikes back
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Better get some cold water ready.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Rendezvous this!
Artyom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If an asteroid fires a missile and it enters the atmosphere, is the rest of the asteroid considered a meteor?
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m not saying I’m on team asteroid…
einlander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But when 12.5 percent of the planets of the solar system commits 100% of the violence…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Holy fucking shit lmao what a reference
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 months 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 2 months ago
But?