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Astelliard
Billiard with asteroids, lets you move large asteroids through a sequence of small ones. ... Must be already baked by nature? | |
There are so many asteroids. To move a large asteroid, like cruithne to Mars, you don't have to do it directly. Small asteroids could push larger asteroids slightly to collide with even larger ones, until a larger one is cought by a gravity well.
Rather than investing $ to lifting more fuel, it could
be invested into getting more information -- surveying the surfaces, masses, spins, etc. of asteroids to make precision collisions.
Inspired by [asteroid to mars] idea.
zevkirsh's idea: "astroid to mars"
astroid_20to_20mars [Inyuki, Aug 02 2012]
Simiar, perhaps more general! So, better!
Asteroid_20collider [Inyuki, Feb 18 2019]
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I think you'd want to do it by gravitational
slingshotting rather than by collisions - the result of
a collision would depend too delicately on things
like surface topography and spin. |
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Okay, so it is what I thought. Bun in the corner gravity
well. |
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I feel the problem would be getting a piece of green baize big enough. |
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...and let's not forget about the chalk. Where are you going to be a 1km/2 piece of chalk? If suddenly the white cliffs of Dover ain't there any longer, we'll know where to point the finger.. |
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Sounds like the cue for a pun ... |
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We don't want to comet on that remark. |
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