Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/confirmed-humanity-changed-an-objects-orbit-around-the-sun-for-the-first-time

Achievement Unlocked: Play Billiards With Your Own Solar System

I'm glad we can at least do something about that Armageddon

Steven Tyler intensifies

I'm not sure messing with natural orbits of space rocks is a great idea.

Ok so you a Orbital Originalist Extremist then?

I don't know what that means and I have a baby to feed. I just know that doing things has both latent and dominant effects, and can take years to be understood.

Such as what happens when we give the wealthy all the power.

I mean, we've been doing it since our precave age. I'm beginning to think maybe humans aren't the most intelligent life on the planet. 🤭

For what it's worth, the orbits of space rocks are extremely predictable if we have a good amount of information about them. NASA picked this specific rock because we know a lot about it already, it's easy to observe, and it's far enough away from Earth's orbit that there's no chance of accidentally putting in on to a collision course. We now know that if we ever do need to deflect a space rock that's going to hit us, this method definitely works

maybe humans aren't the most intelligent life on the planet. 🤭

Psh, I'd like to see a rabbit build a concrete road or a salamander run a hydraulic lift!

Have you understood the ant tunnels or construction of paper wasps?