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    Earth needs a Good Comet Deflector, why not reuse the International Space Station when its current useful life is over?

    Time is definitely going to be an issue but if the ISS is in a lunar orbit, with the previously mentioned upgrades, with powerful engines fueled and ready for action, the amount of time for something that is a considerable distance out is going to be enough, especially if the concern is of...
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    Earth needs a Good Comet Deflector, why not reuse the International Space Station when its current useful life is over?

    I was thinking of using the large spiderweb of girders and net of cables that would be attached to the international space station as a way to slowly put pressure against a large area of the surface of a rubble pile mountain of a comet. Then using the engines to nudge it off its trajectory; this...
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    Earth needs a Good Comet Deflector, why not reuse the International Space Station when its current useful life is over?

    Earth Needs A Good Comet Deflector. It seems to me that they could put new rockets on the International Space Station when it's current original useful life is used up and then push it up into higher orbit perhaps a lunar orbit; then make a comet deflector out of it. Perhaps give it a large...