Achievement Unlocked: Play Billiards With Your Own Solar System

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    1 month ago

    I’m not sure messing with natural orbits of space rocks is a great idea.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
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        1 month ago

        I don’t know what that means and I have a baby to feed. I just know that doing things has both latent and dominant effects, and can take years to be understood.

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            1 month ago

            I mean, we’ve been doing it since our precave age. I’m beginning to think maybe humans aren’t the most intelligent life on the planet. 🤭

            • Ænima@lemmy.zip
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              1 month ago

              maybe humans aren’t the most intelligent life on the planet. 🤭

              Psh, I’d like to see a rabbit build a concrete road or a salamander run a hydraulic lift!

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                1 month ago

                Have you understood the ant tunnels or construction of paper wasps?

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      1 month ago

      For what it’s worth, the orbits of space rocks are extremely predictable if we have a good amount of information about them. NASA picked this specific rock because we know a lot about it already, it’s easy to observe, and it’s far enough away from Earth’s orbit that there’s no chance of accidentally putting in on to a collision course. We now know that if we ever do need to deflect a space rock that’s going to hit us, this method definitely works