https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/10/inflatable-mirrors-on-spacecraft-would-move-asteroids-fastest Safeguarding Humanity Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/10/inflatable-mirrors-on-spacecraft-would-move-asteroids-fastest#comment-15516 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:09:13 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=97#comment-15516 Im no astrophysicist by any means. But is this the best that the brilliant minds employed by NASA can come up with? Inflatable mirrors focusing a narrow beam of light to alter the trajectory of an object that is being pulled by the solar systems gravitational pull. Isn’t that like shooting a Garden hose at a Fire truck moving at 50k/hr. and hope it stops,slows down or changes direction? Just my 2 cents

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/10/inflatable-mirrors-on-spacecraft-would-move-asteroids-fastest#comment-12673 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:13:09 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=97#comment-12673 […] Inflatable Mirrors on spacecraft would move asteroids fastest […]

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/10/inflatable-mirrors-on-spacecraft-would-move-asteroids-fastest#comment-12242 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:07:29 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=97#comment-12242 […] working for three or more years. Quasar9 discusses this idea, and the Lifeboat Foundation chips in a link as […]

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2007/10/inflatable-mirrors-on-spacecraft-would-move-asteroids-fastest#comment-11976 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:31:20 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=97#comment-11976 […] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptNew Scientist reports on a new study by researchers led by Massimiliano Vasile of the University of Glasgow in Scotland have compared nine of the many methods proposed to ward off such objects, including blasting them with nuclear … […]

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