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minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoEven 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.
minus-squarezedgeist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoI wish I could escape myself…
minus-squareButteryMonkey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoHave you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoYou could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.
minus-squareicelimit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoMan even a 5.6 is only 0.9km/s. I thought we could give the moon a ring of bullets.
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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.
I wish I could escape myself…
Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!
You could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.
Man even a 5.6 is only 0.9km/s. I thought we could give the moon a ring of bullets.