Man even a 5.6 is only 0.9km/s. I thought we could give the moon a ring of bullets.
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smeg@feddit.uk 20 hours agoThe escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s (compared to 11.2km/s on Earth) so you’d have to be throwing it pretty hard
icelimit@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
mkwt@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Even if you went to some asteroids that have low escape velocities, a spacecraft still has all of the mass of a spacecraft–probably a few 1000 kg. So you probably can’t get it going fast enough, even if you can escape yourself by jumping.
zedgeist@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I wish I could escape myself…
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.