It’s lame and geeky.
Like when nasa issue statements from its machines as though the machine itself is talking.
It’s lame and geeky.
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or that’s what they want us to think. Then there is the issue of launch times coinciding with various aliments over Egypt of significance to the old gods - this has been true since at least Apollo times.
Speaking of lame and geeky, I’m tempted to calculate what it would take in terms of an impact to that regolith that would improve its chances of hitting Earth.
It would be an interesting novel: How much english would you have to put on that ball in order to put it in the corner pocket?
Some shots only take a breath to get them going in the right direction.
I’m not saying this is what is happening, but what if you sent up a nuclear weapon designed to put enough english on that asteroid such that it hit us?
You could get down to a world population of 500,000 in a very efficient manner.