Which would also stop the asteroid hitting us as it’d move itself off track
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ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Or further on course…
TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
If it shoots towards us it will therfore move away from us
Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Missiles don’t have that amount of kickback unlike guns since their propulsion comes gradually and from themselves.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Historical revisionism at work:
The astroid shot first.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
The probability of an asteroid firing in very low, but never zero.
Comment105@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s not true. The probability of an asteroid firing is actually very high, but they’re very inaccurate.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The American military industrial complex is salivating right now
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Yeah, but that’s just what we do.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Beltalowdas
davidagain@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Rama strikes back
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Better get some cold water ready.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Rendezvous this!
Artyom@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
If an asteroid fires a missile and it enters the atmosphere, is the rest of the asteroid considered a meteor?
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I’m not saying I’m on team asteroid…
einlander@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But when 12.5 percent of the planets of the solar system commits 100% of the violence…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Holy fucking shit lmao what a reference
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
But?