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by myrmidon 356 days ago
Still a no-can-do for our species currently, and it's not close.

Would need around 1km/s on top of its average orbital velocity to escape, but the mass is probably roughly in the 10^22kg range, so thats like 10^28 Joule.

Significantly more than a billion of the biggest nuclear bombs we built.