I didn't say it wasn't you stated that an asteroid was traveling to fast to catch up to.You do know that the Japanese landed a probe on an asteroid ?/——/ I wonder if we don’t already have to technology to deflect an asteroidWell, considering how much sky there is out there, as well as how many NEO's out there they detect on a regular basis (Near Earth Objects), that amount of money is just a drop in the bucket. At least 95 percent of the space around us is going to remain undetected.
Not a chance. Something between the size of a school bus to something around 1/2 mile wide, traveling at over 28,000 mph? Yeah.............sure.............the only thing we MIGHT be able to do is track it, but we don't have any kind of missiles that would stop it, they wouldn't be fast enough.
And, forget trying to catch it in space............those speeds are more like 50,000 mph.
They Made It! Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu
Dude...............landing on an asteroid and taking a couple of pictures is VASTLY different than trying to stop a cataclysmic event from striking the earth.
So..............tell me...............how exactly are two hopping rovers that land successfully on an asteroid going to stop it or veer it off course so it doesn't strike Earth and end all life?
The bigger something is, the more mass it has. The more mass it has, the more fuel it takes to make it move as fast as something with 1/100th it's mass. If you are to launch something capable of deflecting or destroying the asteroid, it's gotta be fast enough to catch it, and currently, we don't have the tech to move something that big that fast. Your two little bouncing robots don't count, because they would have no effect. In order to stop or deflect it, that is gonna take quite a bit of mass to have an effect.