Oddbean new post about login | logout Maybe that planet sized UFO that NASA showed on one of their websites that was sucking plasma off the sun will start hashing and reorg the chain.
yeah, i saw that, it's a big object but it's just gonna do a loop and fling back out into deep space for another few thousand years but it brings up the point... more advanced civilization that warned our ancestors about this may well have had such a good model of the nearby tens of thousands of lightyears neighbourhood that they were actually talking about a giant rock that is coming would explain why the controlled media has been hyping the doom of a meteor strike it could be the same one referred to in Revelation
But if they can zoom around in cloaky planet plasma suckers, they can zap a space rock
they hype up the power of all the nukes in the world but i'm pretty sure a 1km diameter rock that is certain to collide with us would not be able to be bumped off course with all those nukes, and blown up right next to it out at pluto... the weight alone is immense, and then add the velocity of thousands of meters per second but it's fairly unlikely considering it's a pretty tight window when you count that our planet is flying around the sun at 400m/s
That would be a bad way to do it. If you have a space economy, you have matter streams. You mine a rock somewhere, but need the goodies somewhere else - you don't fill the cargo hold of s ship with ore, you conveyer feed pellets into a magnetically propelled mass driver and stream pellets across space, into a receiver at the other end. To change a rock's trajectory, you aim a matter stream at the rock for whatever duration is required to break any gravitational resonances it may be following. Or just eat that rock too.