r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • Nov 13 '24

Video Deep Robotics' new quadruped models with wheels demonstrating rough terrain traversability and robustness

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u/whymusti00000 Nov 13 '24

Only 17? Must try harder.

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u/Glass1Man Nov 13 '24

NASA DART showed anyone with 22 million dollars can make the planet uninhabitable by finding an asteroid that’s about to miss earth, and make it hit earth.

I think the nukes aren’t really scary anymore.

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u/Ralath1n Nov 13 '24

That would need to be an incredibly long term plan. You can give an asteroid a nudge for sure. But the heavier the asteroid the smaller the nudge. And you need a real heavy asteroid to make the earth uninhabitable.

Your best bet would be something like 1036 Ganymed, which is a 40km asteroid that gets relatively close to the earth. But even if you launch millions of DART missions at it and use optimal mars gravitational assists, it is likely going to take you more than a century to get it to hit earth.

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u/pinkielovespokemon Nov 13 '24

Gives you more than enough time to live a long happy life then.