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Re: psychoceramics: Archimedes Plutonium horning in on Abian
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- Subject: Re: psychoceramics: Archimedes Plutonium horning in on Abian
- From: Robin Stephenson <robin @ gbhap.com>
- Date: 07 Oct 1997 16:57:17 +0100
- In-Reply-To: Bruce Ediger's message of "Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:03:38 -0600 (MDT)"
- References: <Pine.3.89.9710070927.A11441-0--@t--.csn.net>
- Sender: owner-psychoceramics
It's just occurred to me (duh) -- if you did want to impact the moon
(`softly' or otherwise) on the Earth, why would you throw asteroids at
it? Why not simply install rocket motors on the moon? Half a dozen
nice solar-powered mass drivers, leave it a few million years, wake up
one morning to find a dumbell-shaped Earth2, with a healthy
suction-powered atomosphere and fdbhdfdf a828 y42y808y25^£$&(^
NO CARRIER
--
Robin Stephenson
Keep Away From Children
PS <http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~danforth/arc/sci-asteroid.deflection>
reminds me of something I forgot to take into account in my `boe'
calculation -- the potential energy involved in bringing the
centres of mass of the moon and the Earth closer together. I just
*bet* it's big enough to make a difference. Sorry about that.