Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd5qf12 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 12:44 AM

Reply to comment by MaekusMikolous in Couldn’t we land on an asteroid that is passing through our solar system and use that as a vessel for interstellar travel? by [deleted]

I explained it in other comments and I cba reiterating but I think there are more benefits than just matching it’s speed with a single craft

OnlyAstronomyFans t1_jd5xqis wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:38 AM

Why wouldn’t you just stay in the ship that you built that already had enough Delta V to escape the system? I see what you’re getting at but why would you want to do it? The thing would be moving so fast you would spend so much energy trying to catch up to it then you’d have the complication of trying to land on it and hope that it fits your needs. All those pictures you saw of those previous interstellar objects were just artists depictions. Nobody could image them well enough to know what they were made of or what their spin rate was, really anything about it, other than its speed and trajectory.

Unless we’re already really good at interstellar travel, what you just described is the suicide of whatever crew was on that ship

Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd62vkq wrote on March 22, 2023 at 2:17 AM

A quick answer would be protection from space debris. More land with which to make the space craft more reinforced and with which to potentially build further technological instruments, or even live on if that was a possibility.

Even so. It could provide avenues for slowing down the payload once reaching the destination. If you could mine for fuel, that’s a win.

OnlyAstronomyFans t1_jd64lq3 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 2:31 AM

This is going to be my last response to you because I am positive that you’re trolling us, trying to get karma so you can post spam in other subs that have rules about new accounts posting.

That said but the only reason anyone would do this would be because they wanted themselves and all of their descendants to live on that asteroid forever. You would need insane technology just to get to the interstellar object, let alone land and mine it. For sure it is not anything that would happen in either of our lifetimes. Fairs seas, my little troll.