[TML] Asteroid Deflection

[Rob Davenport]

>From: Leon Wu <Leon.Wu at newswire.ca>
>Subject: Re: [TML] RTT Supplements
>>
>> Thanks, so far nobody's thrown rocks at me over it...
>
>Near C rocks?

...which reminds me - I caught parts of "Deep Impact" on late night TV
last night (hadn't seen it), and I looked up some stuff about 
asteroid/comet deflection:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_deflection_strategies>

and had two thoughts:

1)  What about jump drives (in the far future obviously)? Could one or 
more be attached to an incoming rock (a non-near-C type rock probably) and 
just jump it (or as much of it as possible) somewhere else? Never mind 
about a misjump, in fact that'd probably be preferred. (Induced misjump?).

2) At the bottom of the above article it has a section called "Gaming",
which I found meant "Computer gaming".  Doesn't Traveller deserve 
mentioning for the near-C rock "issue"? And/or any science fiction that 
deals with it? :)

Not that I want to bring up near-C rocks again...


Rob

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