[TML] Solution to the near-c rock question

Brad Murray bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 13:58:10 MST 2008


On Feb 1, 2008 12:34 PM, Jerry W Barrington <jursamaj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Err... gravitationally?  How big a package you sending?

20 tons or so.  Big for a scientific package but not logistically
impossible.  You need to carry a bunch of fuel anyway.  With a year or
two's lead time you don't need all that big a vector to miss an earth
sized object.

Not my idea, of course:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110902204.html

-- 
Brad Murray (halfjack)


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