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   Bilan said, 4 months ago

   Oops. Now we’re the moon.
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   margueritem said, 4 months ago

   I think the asteroid was piloting the rocket…
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   wecatsgocomics said, 4 months ago

   And for gossakes put the durn thing back where it belongs!
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   pbarnrob said, 4 months ago

   I’d heard it was some entrepeneurs want to start prospecting and mining asteroids, for both the metals and volatiles (shades of Charles Sheffield’s stories, not to mention C.J. Cherryh et al and Gerard O’Neill’s serious L4, L5 colonies.)

   The hardest part is likely permission to launch anything that could even achieve LEO; if you can put anything in LEO, they can call it a weapon, even a crowbar!
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   Agent54 said, 4 months ago

   At least they skipped over the Uranus jokes.
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   pbarnrob said, 4 months ago

   From another perspective, “It followed me home! Can I keep it? We won’t need more methane and nitrogen for centuries!”
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   Kali39 said, 4 months ago

   Meanwhile, the Sahara Desert is now the Sahara Ocean…
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

   That’d be a little tough for the government to hush up!
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   win said, 4 months ago

   Saturn!?! Get your head out of Uranus, Brewster!
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    Varnes said, 4 months ago

    Guess he didn’t planet that way…
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    Varnes said, 4 months ago

    The truth is, we need those big ol’ planets to catch as many rocks as they can…Did you ever notice the other side of the moon is riddled with the craters where big ole rocks hit..How many of those would have hit us if they didn’t hit the moon? To hit the other side of the moon, something has to be coming right at us…The big planets are like vacuum cleaners…We owe our lives to them….
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    Varnes said, 4 months ago

    I got a kick out of the asteroid that hit Jupiter, but broke into a lot of pieces and scattered itself around the globe…At the time, there was a debate going on about whether or not we should worry about big rocks from space killing us…Sounded kinda stupid, I have to admit…But when that thing crashed into Jupiter in a dozen huge parts…It seemed like Mother Nature saying, “What part of this don’t you understand?”
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    Gary McSpook said, 4 months ago

    I always wanted to own a Saturn.
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    pcolli said, 4 months ago

    @Varnes

    I remember also that there was a big “End of the World” thing going on then.
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    packratjohn said, 4 months ago

    My first thought? Saturnalia !!
    (Any excuse to pop a cork)
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