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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7486638" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>so to recap this (which tests my rudimentary understanding as I digest and keep it simple in the story):</p><p></p><p>the planet-killer asteroid has a mass of 1EE14 kg and is traveling at 50km/s (same size as Chicxulb)</p><p></p><p>by realizing that the rock is leading the moving target of Earth (a sniper thing to do), messing up that timing will save the day</p><p></p><p>If she can get behind it and speed the rock up, it takes less force than a pushing from the side, which is something she might be able to do</p><p></p><p>I can make it scrape the atmosphere for a lightshow and heat up, since she's personally pushing this thing, thus creating the danger through art of wordsmithing. To solve the repeat-performance problem, I can have her set the pico-printer-gel to chewing away at it, which in another hundred years, probably wouldn't be a problem. I'll come up with something to explain how she got so much force, but it's easy to justify in words that this is more feasible than pushing from the side once I throw in "order of magnitude"</p><p></p><p>I don't know how much techno-babble I'll put in, but y'all have given enough detail that if this version of the plan is plausible, I can take it from here.</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 7486638, member: 8835"] so to recap this (which tests my rudimentary understanding as I digest and keep it simple in the story): the planet-killer asteroid has a mass of 1EE14 kg and is traveling at 50km/s (same size as Chicxulb) by realizing that the rock is leading the moving target of Earth (a sniper thing to do), messing up that timing will save the day If she can get behind it and speed the rock up, it takes less force than a pushing from the side, which is something she might be able to do I can make it scrape the atmosphere for a lightshow and heat up, since she's personally pushing this thing, thus creating the danger through art of wordsmithing. To solve the repeat-performance problem, I can have her set the pico-printer-gel to chewing away at it, which in another hundred years, probably wouldn't be a problem. I'll come up with something to explain how she got so much force, but it's easy to justify in words that this is more feasible than pushing from the side once I throw in "order of magnitude" I don't know how much techno-babble I'll put in, but y'all have given enough detail that if this version of the plan is plausible, I can take it from here. Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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