The person who made this has no idea how big space is. It would take tens or hundreds of billions of years for Dimorphos to reach a star system, if it was a kinda close one. The Voyager 2 probe will go past the star Ross 248, which is 10.3 light years from us, in about 42,000 years with the closest distance to that of 1.7 light years, and it’s going WAY faster than Dimorphos. Voyager 2 is traveling at 15.341 km/s while Dimorphos is traveling at 0.177 m/s, so Dimorphos is traveling at 0.0011% the speed of Voyager 2. If they were going the same path, it would take Dimorphos 17,437,757,800 years (17.43 billion, which is 3.64 billion years longer than the current age of the universe) to reach Ross 248.
And as said, that’s if it was going to leave our solar system in the first place, which it isn’t.
Just woke up so I might have made some error in the math, please correct me if I have!
Who said the alien planet is outside our system?/r
And I thought it was a long way down the road to the chemist
It is a meme
If I made a meme talking about jumping from the top of the empire state building and said you’d fall 100ft before hitting the ground, people would be justified in saying I have no idea how high actual empire state building is; and that is a hell of a lot closer to the actual answer than your estimate of 4000 years.
17cm/s seems awful low. Is that its speed relative to Didymos?
Your math ain’t inherently wrong though. Without strapping a torch drive on that thing it ain’t going anywhere.
Skill issue tbh
Won’t be that alien of a planet considering that thing isn’t going to leave the solar system.
And even if it did it wouldn’t get very far in 4000 years.
We could try slingshotting it round the sun a few dozen times and really fuck em up.
Either that, or they also manage to deflect it and it somehow comes back to us in another 10000 years
Remind me in 10,000 years. We shall see if you are correct!
We’ll just deflect it with another ball of garbage.
Space tennis
Space Pong
Tennis the Menace.
But what if it was coming at us because they had deflected it earlier on?
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
It wasn’t enough to move it from its orbit around its parent body, so if they both impact Earth or Mars at some point it was going to happen anyway. They’re only city killers, it won’t be a global issue other than dust thrown up for a while. Sucks if you’re at that point though, you get two for the price of one.
