Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids

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  • SeeK
    NCC1701-A
    • Sep 2002
    • 464
    #1

    Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids

    Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids - Slashdot
    http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/27/1947222/paintball-pellets-as-a-tool-to-deflect-asteroids?
    A reader sends this quote from an article at MIT's Technology Review: "In the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you'd better hope that it's blindingly white. A pale asteroid would reflect sunlight — and over time, this bouncing of photons off its surface could create enough o...


    We better get Tom working on this.

    I doubt a splatter pattern would be optimal to apply a 5 um layer of paint.

    One of the more interesting points is that it would require 5 tons of paint for a large asteroid.
    Forest Gump of paintball
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    • going_home
      Hebrews 13:8

      • Dec 2004
      • 8343
      #2
      I say let's leave Tom alone and let him concentrate on getting the new website up and running.



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        • BTAutoMag
          AO's Problem Child
          • Oct 2001
          • 7199
          #3
          Originally posted by going_home
          I say let's leave Tom alone and let him concentrate on getting the new website up and running.



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