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Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash::A school teacher and his students have discovered that an asteroid deliberately hit by a Nasa spacecraft is behaving in a weird way.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the crew of the Rocinante has another mission on their hands.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aw shit, the Mormons are gonna lose their gigantic space chruch!

[–] random_character_a 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Directing asteroid by launching everything mormon at it? Let's make this scifi a reality.

^I'd also add actual mormons as munitions.^

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 4 points 1 year ago

Lol, no, I was referring to a plot point from The Expanse where some of the main characters stole a massive spaceship they built from the Mormons to ram into a massive asteroid in order to move it out of a collision course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seriously, I'm so glad to be out.