Jesse Rogerson

The going idea, if you are going to use a nuclear option on an asteroid, would be to send it near to the asteroid, explode it very close to it, so that you vaporize a portion of it, which then would knock it off course.

Yes, exactly.

Vaporizes or deforms.

Cool.

And so you can shift momentum and if it vaporizes, then it can kind of act like its own rocket.

You know, if it's dissipating gas away from itself, then that's like a rocket.

It's like a balloon, right?

You let the gas out and off it flies.

And if you vaporize part of an asteroid, then off it flies in a different direction.

Give it a little acceleration, right?

So the simulation seems to show that our understanding of meteorites and our understanding of rocks in space might be something we weren't fully wrapping our heads around, and we might be able to use high-energy things like nuclear bombs.

I am 100% with you on this.

You know, looking at how space access has changed in the last 20 years with the advent of private companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin with the ease of access, the lower amounts of costs.

And I think we're going to humanity over the next 100 years, 200 years is going to proliferate out into the solar system.

We're looking at like the expanse type situation with less.

I don't know about any of the drama, but if you watch that show, you have like human settlements in various places.

And that's like, you know, I think that's a real possibility.

And the idea of like mining asteroids, the idea of utilizing the resources out there in the solar system, I think is very much within our grasp, which is going to include managing threats from asteroids and comets, say.

I think this is a very doable thing.

It's just going to take, we got some time ahead of us.