To: DBrow; presidio9; RightWhale; KevinDavis; King Prout
"How much difference is there in the technology to deflect and the capability to aim?" Vector direction.
14 posted on
04/10/2006 3:23:50 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
(I don't want a World with empty dreams ... Dump the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Now! ... Farm Mars!)
To: NicknamedBob
Exactly. The same technology can take an asteroid that is orbiting close by and nudge it into an orbit that the folks in, say, Kansas would not approve of.
OTOH, the same tools can be used to nudge it into orbit, maybe, and then mine it for heavy elements, or crashland it on the Moon for later attention.
19 posted on
04/10/2006 4:21:26 PM PDT by
DBrow
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