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by justinclift 1157 days ago
The "rod from space" just need to deflect the orbit of an already existing large asteroid doesn't it?

Which would hopefully be detected in time to "solve" the problem, but still... ;)

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"just" is doing a lot of work there. It's a pretty serious engineering effort to move rocks around the solar system and unless you have unlimited-energy future tech, you're probably stuck with the current paradigm of nudging things slightly to take advantage of convoluted gravity assists and small time windows to move things about. It'd be a very slow and predictable weapon that we already watch for.