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seehp t1_ixprnr0 wrote

Reply to comment by PlasticMansGlasses in Mars may be slowly ripping its largest moon apart by peterabbit456

Unless there is quite some progress in physics or medicine, no.

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froggison t1_ixqn369 wrote

Or what if we get a bunch of rockets and push it into Mars?

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nzl_river97 t1_ixqrsdj wrote

Most efficient way is to push it backwards to slow it down and reduce the orbit. Pushing it directly to Mars will just make the orbit more eccentric.

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seehp t1_ixqz61f wrote

Good plan. I like that. Tom Cruise will probably want to be there to film an action film sequence.

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Khavak t1_ixs9095 wrote

or accelerate it into an eccentric orbit and then deaccelerate it at apoapsis

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Lollister t1_ixseqqj wrote

Sooo you play ksp or real astrophysican ?

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nzl_river97 t1_ixslb2i wrote

I did a few papers on astrophysics in uni, but also a lot of ksp haha

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