redlinezo6

redlinezo6 t1_j0972si wrote

That's pretty much what I thought. Kind of like the supercollider America started building then stopped.

If America commited a trillion$ over 10 years they could have a giant fusion machine. But it would be just an ungodly proof of concept. You'd still have to figure out all the details of getting it to usable size.

But hey... Better than spending it on killing people right?

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redlinezo6 t1_iymr23x wrote

We just did that with a satellite hitting an asteroid. Of course those masses are much closer in size, but it only changed the asteroids spin slightly, but measurable over days.

And there is totally things that compound, every change in mass or velocity changes it's interaction with all gravitational bodies. Which all act on each other...

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