pmMeAllofIt t1_jd5y2e6 wrote
Reply to comment by Majestic_Pitch_1803 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]
How is the object going in a desired location. The chances of it's trajectory being exactly where we want it to be is unlikely. But even so, we manage to hitch a ride. Oumuamua at it's perihelion was doing 87km/s, but climbing away from the Sun slows it down. From what I see it will average about 26km/s. At that speed it will take 15,000> years to leave the solar system, and about 50,000 years to reach the nearest star.
As crazy as it sounds, it's not fast enough.
Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd62qcb wrote
Not oumuamua specifically, just an omuamua like object. As an example that such a thing does exist.
pmMeAllofIt t1_jd65yd2 wrote
The point stands. Come back in a hundred years or so, but it's like asking to hitch a ride on a log to cross the Atlantic, but the log is in China.
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