Which would also stop the asteroid hitting us as it'd move itself off track
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Missiles don't have that amount of kickback unlike guns since their propulsion comes gradually and from themselves.
A bullet has roughly the kinetic energy of a punch
Surely a missile launch would be far higher due to the mass
Or further on course…
If it shoots towards us it will therfore move away from us
If it is on a trajectory past earth and it shoots at us it will slow it down, adjusting the trajectory and potentially hitting earth.
This person Kerbals
Is it that obvious?
The probability of an asteroid firing is very low, but never zero.
That's not true. The probability of an asteroid firing is actually very high, but they're very inaccurate.
Historical revisionism at work:
The astroid shot first.
Beltalowdas
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.
The American military industrial complex is salivating right now
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.
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.
Interesting phrasing fellow citizen. Did you inform them?
No updates in several years, and the human propensity to weaponise.
Plus the furore a few years back over the Russian anti-satellite satellite and the way both US and Russia spoke round the issue.
Non-weaponised space is verging into Israel isn't a nulear weapon state territory if I'm honest.
tldw Everyone assumes the US made a secret illegal armed space ship (they did) so almost every other country did too. The US was offended that anyone but them broke the rules but they all had to fight the moon nazis together so no big deal
Yeah, but that's just what we do.
Rama strikes back
Rendezvous this!
Better get some cold water ready.
If an asteroid fires a missile and it enters the atmosphere, is the rest of the asteroid considered a meteor?
I'm not saying I'm on team asteroid...
But when 12.5 percent of the planets of the solar system commits 100% of the violence...
Holy fucking shit lmao what a reference
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.
But?