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Using Gravity To Tow Asteroids

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the and-you-thought-a-snails-pace-was-slow dept.

cryptocom writes "Space.com is reporting that two scientists at NASA are proposing using a 20-ton spacecraft to pull asteroids off a possible collision course with Earth, using the spacecraft's own gravity as an attractor. This idea would not only be cheaper, but have a much higher chance of success, due to not having to actually land on the asteroid's surface."

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  1. Mods on crack? by StarKruzr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How is this flamebait?

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  2. Re:Humans perhaps.... by Rei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bah, if you want to be Frank, you should just open up a portal for the asteroid to sail through.

    28 days. 6 hours. 42 minutes. 12 seconds. That is when the world will end.

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    He's just being nice so my real father won't freeze him in carbonite and sell him for spice.