News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails by mulmen on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @04:15PM (#18340891)
Capturing this object would have required the effort of multiple Apollo prgrams in a timeframe that is shorter by orders of magnitude. It’s far beyond the capabilities of Musk, Bezos and anyone alive today. Pulling it off would make the Moon landing look like parallel parking.
Re:‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails by jacobush on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:40PM (#18358200)
But I wonder if it would have been possible to just do a fly-by of it...