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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17655 on: April 02, 2017, 09:51:26 am »

Laser is inefficient. Granted, the heat evolved from the inefficiency would serve as a kind of radiative pressure, but that is still inefficient; that energy can be used much more efficiently.

Many asteroids are metallic in composition. If we narrow our scope to just this kind, and ignore chondrite asteroids totally, then we have a better thing we can do.

We can land the craft on the asteroid allright- part of the lander is a large inducting "tube", with an inductive heating element on the end. High voltage alternating current is run through this, which causes magnetic hysteresis in the metallic surface of the asteroid, heating it up (and heating it very efficiently), until a chunk can be pulled up off the surface magnetically. It his then accelerated up and out the tube like a railgun.

Ka-CHUNK-- large hunk of reaction mass lifted off the asteroid and in a know vector, using nuclear energy.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17656 on: April 02, 2017, 10:08:11 am »

If star wars taught me anything it is that it would be immoral to nuke asteroids if it might kill the random space worms that might be living within.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17657 on: April 02, 2017, 12:08:30 pm »

I have to agree with that sentiment. You could unknowingly cause the extinction of the entire biosphere of the object. And thats horrible.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17658 on: April 02, 2017, 03:08:06 pm »

Or what if the asteroid itself was alive?

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17659 on: April 04, 2017, 04:37:58 am »

What if we are actually just cells in Terra's body?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17660 on: April 04, 2017, 04:41:06 am »

What if we are actually just cells in Terra's body?
Well.. We are full of cells ourselves.. So.. Cellception?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17661 on: April 04, 2017, 10:15:09 am »

What if we are all just cells in a giant version of microsoft excel?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17662 on: April 04, 2017, 10:18:17 am »

We can't be cells in excel, only ex cells
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17663 on: April 04, 2017, 01:40:10 pm »

If we're in Dead Cell, am I a gay vampire?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17664 on: April 04, 2017, 01:45:06 pm »

If dead cells are gay vampires, are living cells straight humans?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17665 on: April 04, 2017, 01:48:21 pm »

Waitwaitwait. If we're all cells, does Al Kaida consist of terrorist cells consisting of terrorist cells?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17666 on: April 04, 2017, 01:52:04 pm »

Is a monstrous man monstrous down to his most base biology?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17667 on: April 04, 2017, 01:53:04 pm »

Yes. And rogue terror agents are cancer.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17668 on: April 04, 2017, 01:54:13 pm »

Moreover, if a terrorist's terrorist cells become cancer cells, are said cancer cells antiterrorist cells?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #17669 on: April 04, 2017, 02:28:25 pm »

We are parts of Terra, but we are also ourselves. Just as your gut bacteria are a vital part of your body, but may live or die separate from yourself.
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