Two coats?Blind groper wrote:Xamonas
As I pointed out, the asteroid will almost certainly be tumbling. That will even out and negate the effect of the paint.
Nasa chief Charles Bolden's advice on asteroid
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Re: Nasa chief Charles Bolden's advice on asteroid
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Re: Nasa chief Charles Bolden's advice on asteroid
And use marine grade, just to be sure.
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Re: Nasa chief Charles Bolden's advice on asteroid
Blind groper wrote:Not a spot. They aimed it at a region of space.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:They aimed Hubble at a spot in space for 100 friggin' hours.
Oh, please. You know how big that spot in the sky was? You're working too hard here, ease up.
Like the one the Hubble Deep Field area occupies.For the asteroid deflection, you would have to aim a mirror at an unbelievably tiny bit of space.
I've said all along you have to start early. Do try to keep up.Like pointing a needle at one specific atom, and not being permitted to let it point at the atom next door, and holding that precision for months. Perhaps a sufficiently advanced civilisation might do it, but not ours. Not for a long time.
You would have to start the deflection with the mirror while the asteroid was months away from Earth - meaning tens of millions of miles. The target would be totally invisible except through a very powerful telescope, and the light would be required to specifically impact just one half of that target. I think you underestimate the difficulty.
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