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Re:Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas: What We Know Now by themgt on Monday July 28, 2025 @06:06PM (#44716295)
There's disposable FPV drones that launch with 50km spools of kevlar cable. Seems like smart people could work out a way to "hitch" a probe on a comet without fully matching velocities first.
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Re:Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas: What We Know Now by andrekandre on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:15PM (#44717847)
that would probably be... extremely hard?

i mean aren't we talking like km/s of speed difference? idk of any kind of material even 50km long that could absorb that kind of stretch/sheering like that...

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