A monopoly on space, or "asteroid propulsion technology" can NEVER be allowed to exist as this is truly the end-game doomsday scenario, any country capable of controlling and redirecting the orbit of asteroids essentially has the LARGEST DESTRUCTIVE CAPACITY POSSIBLE - and governments know this.
Even altering the trajectory of a tiny asteroid (measured in tens or hundreds of yards) to impact a specific country would cause greater devastation than even the greatest of the world's nuclear arsenals - and a monopoly on such technology leaves ALL OTHER COUNTRIES: A) Defenceless to such attacks B) Incapable of proving the guilt of the aggressor (as they would have no technology present in the vicinity and would, therefore, simply have to trust country with the technology when they say they did not do it) C) Incapable of ever attaining such power for themselves
isn't that better than letting a world-destroyer meteor hit us?
Leo Butler
one would argue that no, it is the natural cycle of things. highly unlikely that we could do anything anyhow.
Jacob Baker
The main thing is a MONOPOLY on the technology and space, not the technology itself.
>pic related, gravity tractor imaged by NASA
Xavier King
Wayne loves this!
Adam Carter
>"we need to practice moving this asteroid around so we can land on Mars XD" -NASA Seems pretty shady come to think of it tbhq senpai. Gonna have to look in to this
Brandon Howard
Any technology has the potential to be harmful. Smelt iron and you can make a sword. What you're really proposing is to not engage in any scientific action whatsoever.
Jaxson Lopez
What else would you smelt iron for? To make plows?
Nathaniel Gutierrez
We are gonna discover how to destroy the sun whether we want to or not.
Nathaniel Perez
I've said repeatedly now, a MONOPOLY on the technology. NOT the technology itself.
Noah Roberts
>Even altering the trajectory of a tiny asteroid (measured in tens or hundreds of yards) to impact a specific country would cause greater devastation than even the greatest of the world's nuclear arsenals No its not. impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/
Asher Hughes
This is getting into Saturday morning cartoon villain category
Austin Edwards
The elephant aliens with trunk fingers figured this one out 30 yrs ago...
Levi Ortiz
>what are nukes the US had a 'monopoly' on nuclear technology during the latter part of the 1940s. the fact is that technology will always be susceptible to reverse engineering
David Brown
But you cannot claim a nuclear explosion was a natural event.
Evan Clark
We need this technology to defend against species-killing asteroids yon fucking moron. Delet this post.
Ryan Gutierrez
Kinetic bombardment and RKKVs have been increasingly thought about as large scale space exploration creeps ever closer.
This is far from being a new idea.
Jackson Ward
>M O N O P O L Y
Lincoln Gomez
>The capability of redirecting asteroids must never be attained!
>Even if we did we wouldn't be able to stop a world-wide
Explain yourself.
Cooper Cooper
You can't claim it with asteroid neither. You need close to Earth course correction for any sort of practical accuracy and work of correction engine would be visible from Earth.
Daniel Barnes
Aerospace Engineer with specialty in Astrodynamics here
Contrary to hollywood, redirecting an asteroid would take an immense amount of energy.
Gravity tractors change an asteroid's direction by a minute amount (like 1 km off course per 1000km at best--depends on a lot of factors)
Jaxon Martin
BTW you can send nuclear warheads to space at the disguise of interplanetary mission and then secretly send them back. It would be much more feasible to maneuver with 100 kg warhead than with 10000000000 tons asteroids.
Luke Long
Yeah, but over time, you can move and asteroid to wherever you want it.
The big trick with what the OP is talking about is targeting a particular area on earth for impact. Asteroids change course too much on reentry.
Better to just put a base on the moon and use mag-levs to shoot iron embedded shots of desired size and mass at whatever offends you on the earth.
Jaxson Adams
IIRC there is this treaty that forbids any nation to build anyhting on the moon.
Kevin Bell
>defenseless I'm sure major nations such as the US and Russia would opt to invest in railgun batteries specifically for shit like this should the need arise.
Jaxon James
A country could bankrupt itself in the attempt and overwhelmingly likely will wind up with a projectile on a trajectory no more precise than firing a single shot at a 1 cm soap bubble in a football stadium, drunk, in pitch darkness.
Jayden Bennett
>we should let a natural one hit us because, why not kys
Julian Bennett
Nope, pretty everyone say it's for space mining.
Nathan Martinez
Sounds like America needs to develop it first.
Landon Jenkins
In addition to having an army as powerful as the rest of the planet and a commensurate nuclear arsenal, america will now have the capicity to literally fucking extinct the human race with a paleocene tier asteroid if it wishes. Kek.
Leo Butler
The fuck u gonna do about it, brit bitch? Itd be a shame if a meteor took your miserable little rainy fuck of an island back to the jurassic era, huh?
The concept has been around for a long time. Just imagine the impact of a five-ton tungsten rod, roughly a meter in diameter, hurled at a planet at half the speed of light.
Zachary Flores
...And who owns the USA? Not you, buddy.
John Hall
Implying that the usa doesnt own all
Ryder Murphy
China says it is going to DO THIS. And the US AF is talking about creating an armed colony on the moon to either prevent China or to make sure they can do the same thing, thus keeping the balance of power and MAD principles in place.
Jordan Hernandez
>forbids nation to build on moon >but US can build an armed colony on the moon to prevent Chinese doing it
How about we just leave it alone
Brody Perry
time to make a Geneva convention (yes i know it's fucking retarded how it's conventions not amendments)
Robert Jackson
Not going to happen. The moon is stuffed full of He3, which is extremely useful for sustained fusion. Unfortunately, the only source we have on Earth for it is deteriorating nuclear weapons. But He3 is in the solar wind, and has been seeding the Moon with He3 for a few billion years.
Russia declared that it owns all the He3 on and in the moon, and was willing to nuke any country that dared to block it from collecting its property. It also said it would nuke any country that tried to mine its He3 without Russia's permission. Hell, Russia said it would NUKE any base or colony on the moon if they country or company doing it didn't include the Russians for a 50% share.
Russia sees its future depending on replacing its hydrocarbons with He3 and being the primary source to the rest of the world for He3. China wants to use it as the ultimate high ground so it can finish conquering the world. And America wants to prevent any other power from getting a monopoly to the moon.
Connor Turner
hey there are fucking space aliens with fleets and their ships are bigger than the earth.
any asteroid hitting this planet would be deliberate as this entire solar system has multiple species and races traveling through it.
Hunter Rogers
the moon is artificial. there are multiple bases on it.
Josiah Gomez
In all my days I've never seen an op go quite this retarded. UK must be a terrible, terrible place
Angel Lopez
secret earth governments in collusion with aliens are at a level of technology ten thousand years in the future.
our entire society is in arrested development.
Matthew Lee
BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY
Dominic Foster
>it is the natural cycle of things So if you ever get sick you shouldn't fix it. Natural cycle.
