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You might want to do the actual math.


Did you do it? That maneuvre would take decades to millenia, and when you use something that far, it may be more efficient to push it into a retrograde orbit so that it hits Earth heads on, instead of chasing after it. It's just absurdly impractical.

Anyway, if you really want to destroy a planet, you want sonething small but fast. It penetrates into the planet, and rips surface on the other side.


Read my comment. Yes I did. Time was in the hundreds of hours.

Dropping things is way easier than throwing things up. This is easy to verify yourself too.




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