• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    So we can consider our sun dying and Andromeda colliding with the milky way as crappy backstops.5 billion years for a maybe is not great. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have that kind of patience. We need fresh ideas. I like your singularity idea, but getting crushed isn’t as artistically coherent as a quality shattering and if you’ve checked the price of singularities these days, its not really in the budget.

    I think the most viable option I’ve heard so far is a mega asteroid. Do you know any suitable candidates for rent?

    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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      17 hours ago

      Well there’s always Ceres (~945km), Pallas (~512km), or Vesta(~525km), though they’re more dwarf planet than asteroid, so that might be pretty pricy to aim at Earth.

      There are several asteroids in the 200-500km range (5-10 if you’re lucky), but not too many. It seems Earth shattering is a pretty premo business in this solar system!