Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by dataflow on Monday May 12, 2025 @09:01PM
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How many comets would you have to crash and how would one redirect and crash them that wouldn't make this exotic-level?
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Depending on a size, probably on the order of tens of thousand.
Comets in the Oort cloud take very little energy to put on a collision orbit, the Sun barely holds them gravitationally, orbital speeds in the Oort cloud are measured in _meters_ per second. So they require (relatively) little energy to put them into a required orbit. It might be doable with just regular thermonuclear charges.
It will then take these comets more than a thousand years to "fall" from the Oort cloud.