Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd5jjyq wrote
Reply to comment by b_a_t_m_4_n in Couldn’t we land on an asteroid that is passing through our solar system and use that as a vessel for interstellar travel? by [deleted]
Now I kind of disagree with the premise that we don’t need it, it could become a ship of it’s own, though with even more added benefits like : protection from radiation and very small asteroids, they contain much of the materials needed for human survival and manufacturing, meaning you could potentially take less equipment with you on the initial departure and instead manufacture sensory devices later on.
VertigoOne1 t1_jd6gn2r wrote
Yeah your right, their forgetting that you match speed, but not mass, millions of tons versus 10. Take everything you hope you need and build a cozy home. It might even be rotating a bit giving parts of it some gravity.
thatwasacrapname123 t1_jd6mr9h wrote
But the down side is its too big to steer or slow down/speed up effectively. You just got to hold on.
b_a_t_m_4_n t1_jd71pqp wrote
For all that to be true you need to have the power to lift all the heavy machinery required for mining and refining and building sub-surface habitats etc, and then accelerating it to the speed of the interstellar asteroid.
If you have all that sort of delta V available that buys a metric fuck tonne of radiation shielding.
Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd8t3ku wrote
For sure we are a ways off but perhaps you send smaller rovers that manufacturer these instruments once on board the asteroid, perhaps just deploying enough raw materials to give them a start.
Voyager for example just ran out of gas. As is expected. This is an issue you’d need to solve in such types of travel. Asteroids seem like a possible solution
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