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Old 31-October-2007, 03:51 AM
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Originally Posted by novaderrik View Post
i don't think i'd want to be doing too much jumping around on an asteroid.
i know Bruce Willis did it, but a fairly healthy leap would probably put you in orbit around it.
In that movie, there was a lot of unrealistic physics. Not to mention the downright silliness of driving a wheeled vehicle across the surface of an asteroid/comet head that was visibly jagged and uneven even when seen from hundreds of thousands of miles away!
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