Sentences with phrase «smaller asteroids turn»

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Instead of sending large spacecraft capable of moving asteroids, the startup wants to send a small craft that could land on the asteroid and 3 - D print a propulsion system and guidance mechanisms — essentially turning the asteroid into its own spaceship that would then drive itself to wherever a crew was located.

It's indeed a space shooter where you shoot larger asteroids and break them into smaller asteroids, where you (eventually) face down more sophisticated enemies, but if you want to follow the original source material, you're going to need the «tank» style turn controls, with the added benefit of forward and reverse thrusters to fine tune your fancy flight and trajectory.

It's the same issue raised by people arguing against blowing up an asteroid, that it turns a single small cannonball into a very large shotgun blast with the same total energy being delivered and delivering it to the atmosphere is still a problem.

But to the extent that changes in the climate killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, those changes were in turn due to the small matter of a city - sized asteroid slamming into the Yucatan Peninsula — an important fact Miller either chose to omit or didn't know.