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BoridePa t1_jd5f2ue wrote

Terrifying thought to be shot out into the void of space for all of time in hopes of finding another planet to colonize.

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Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd5fu0w wrote

Realistically as someone else said you could attach an autonomous craft to land on the asteroid. Though I imagine this usage could extend to humans too, given the difficulty of space travel either-way,

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hdufort t1_jd5h2he wrote

An excellent novel on that topic is "Pushing ice" by Alastair Reynolds. But it's not on a natural asteroid... It's on a spaceship asteroid that is set to travel both n deep space and in deep time...

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