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Some_Canadian_Man t1_jd6hy7z 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]

What if instead of trying to put people on there we put a small device designed for extreme accelerations. It would simply need to be in the path of the moving body. After that, it can hitch a ride and leave the surface when it's ready to wonder space at high speed.

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Some_Canadian_Man t1_jd6icjr wrote

P.S. The fastest body in our solar system goes 200,000mph, or about 0.03% the speed of light. At this speed, it will take about 13,400 years to reach the next sun, assuming it ever arcs in that direction (if I got the math right - I ignored relativistic effects since it's so slow).

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b_a_t_m_4_n t1_jd71zr0 wrote

For a body to be going fast enough to be useful in any non-generation sense the asteroid would need to be traveling at a non-negligible portion of c. Anything we could build would be vapourised.

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Some_Canadian_Man t1_jdbglzp wrote

When I die, me and God are gonna be having some serious conversations about this seemingly restrictive design choice.

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b_a_t_m_4_n t1_jdcdcgi wrote

While you're at it ask him why is the blood supply in front of the retina? And why give us so many teeth that we regularly have to take some out? What an idiot.

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