To: NicknamedBob
600 million pounds of thrust....isn't that a little under powered for towing asteroids?
819 posted on
01/04/2007 8:02:08 PM PST by
rottndog
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To: rottndog
It's a little under-powered for lifting
us out of a one gee field, to tell the truth.
The mass figure, and the volume described, would indicate we would not have floated in the ocean -- we would have floated on the ocean, like a ping-pong ball.
820 posted on
01/04/2007 8:06:48 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
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To: rottndog; NicknamedBob; Dead Corpse; sionnsar; RosieCotton; Professional Engineer; ...
To: rottndog
Besides, the only sensible way to move an asteroid is with a mass driver, flinging chunks of asteroid in the opposite direction to the desired route of travel.
We can build multiple mass drivers, and move anything you want. Except planets. I'm not moving any planets.
Wait a minute ... let me think ...
825 posted on
01/04/2007 8:12:16 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
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