Asteroid corner pocket, "8" ball Strategy.

AndyF

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What's all the hoopla about comet attacks.

How about this.

While most solutions involve missiles attacking asteroids anyway, and there is no immediate threat for decades, why not find a mountain sized asteroid that is just mozying along in the cosmos, (so that it can be stopped/controlled) not at extremes speeds but just a lone rock trapped in a netural gravity between planets/galaxies that has no power to travel. Then have space guys attach rocket engines on it ready to fire. These can be cemented in bore holes with expandable fasteners. Some rockets are retro. These are then positioned at a safe distance from earth, say between mars and earth, and not in any trajectory of any significance. Positioned for control, these rocks will need to be kept manageable and so rockets will need to be fired once in a while to get them to stay put.

Just to be safe have several rocks of different masses preferably of predominately iron.

When a comet is headed for us and it is some distance away, we can fire up the rockets, not to attack but to be positioned to serve has celestial cement walls. Now it will take some time for these to attain a moderate speed for positioning so the timing and accuracy would need to be right on. Worst case is that we get a meteor shower with small fragments entering orbit.

It will call for a whole new industry of spatial work crews whose job it is to keep the machines rolling as it were, but think of the experience gained for training mars crews.;-)

This way we let the rocks fight the rocks.

Andy :eek:ccasion5:
 

ironsides

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This is all we got.

NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for final voyage
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis on Friday for its final journey, a delivery trip to the International Space Station that will provide fresh batteries and extra room.
Atlantis was slated to blast off at 2:20 p.m. Everything was going well in the countdown and the weather was looking favorable. Forecasters were sticking with their 70 percent odds of good weather, but a NASA spokesman said that likely would improve as the morning wore on.
The launch team began pumping more than 500,000 gallons of fuel into Atlantis' massive external tank well before dawn, just as the six astronauts assigned to the mission woke up. The all-male crew downed a hearty breakfast: medium-rare steaks and French fries for three of them, a cheeseburger for another and sandwiches for the remaining two.
The 12-day mission is the last one for Atlantis, the fourth in NASA's line of space shuttles. Only two flights remain after this one, by Discovery and Endeavour. NASA hopes to end the 30-year program by the end of this year.
NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for final voyage - Yahoo! News