• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    27 days ago

    Ever try to stop a rolling car by yourself? If you catch it soon enough, you can stop it. Maybe even push it back into place. But once it gets really moving, the only way to prevent it from getting away is to be at the controls and actively stop it with the brakes.

    Now try doing it with the earth. It’s the same momentum issue on a massive scale.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      I truly, deeply in my bones, believe that if we just grind up the guy at the controls, we could get in there and slow things down slightly before we all die horribly. But we will die slightly LESS horribly. And that counts.

      Come on, let just mulch ONE guy!