From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 01:01:42 MDT
Someone has already suggested putting stuff in orbit "ready to go", to get a
head-start?
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:eugen@leitl.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2002 4:44
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: RE: SPACE: New NEO "moon"
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> > This is the reason why the use of nuclear explosions to
> > vaporize a superficial layer for reaction mass will be much less
> > effective than initially assumed, too.
>
> While I heard similiar claims (never substantiated) I don't think
> asymmetric ablation by barraging the rubble pile with tens
> thousands of
> micronukes detonated at some ~100 m height will be
> ineffective. Especially
> if this is a dirty snowball.
>
> If it isn't, you can just enmesh the rubble pile into a
> carbon fiber net,
> and let it be pulled off-course by an ion drive array.
>
> The problem is not propulsion. The problem is detecting the
> damn things
> sufficiently early, and to get your hardware there on time to
> deflect. It
> may well require a nuke drive to get there on time.
>
>
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