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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by withinboredom on Monday June 17, 2024 @02:56AM (#40702944)
It only takes a 50-meter (radius) rock to destroy a city, a 240-meter rock to destroy an entire region, and a 4 km rock to destroy the planet.

So, I guess it depends on what you want to accomplish, whether they see it coming or not.

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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by kadoban on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @12:25AM (#40714065)
"Only". Those are huge! Especially when you consider the city you have to build around them to launch the damn things.
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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by withinboredom on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:46AM (#40715129)
The required delta-v isn't all that much from the moon, and it's more about the mass and speed than the actual shape of the rock.
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