So we just land a few big rocket engines on it and thrust away from the earth. A little push over many years of low gravity flight should steer it away.
Yet the few hundred million dollars would take away payments to millions of refugees changing our voting demographics, or HIMARS new model missiles to kill Russians, or new gold plated swimming pools to a few deep staters etc.
So it won’t happen.
It really doesn’t matter. We’ll all be dead from climate change within ten years anyway. I’m upset that we’re wasting money on investigating asteroids. That money could have been given to some green crony capitalist to save us now.
I thought we were supposed to drill 800 feet down, insert a nuke, and blow the asteroid up, preventing Armageddon.