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Re:Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of ... by 0xdada on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:55PM (#15955873)
All we would need is to send a bunch of fuel in parts, dock all of them and fire the strongest engine we have. It _is_ rocket science, but I don't think it's far out of reach if we have the money to spend on resources.
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Re:Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of ... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:31AM (#15958656)
That is indeed how you do things in Kerbal Space Program, but back on Earth, it would require at least a few procedural - if not technological - breakthroughs to pull it off.

Which is to say - I'm all for it! The sooner we make those breakthroughs, the better.

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