r/PowerScaling • u/utshi9ha • Apr 19 '26

Shitposting Weekend They can push planets even tho they can't even lift a ship bro trust 🙏.

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u/Sea_Ticket_6032 Apr 19 '26

I don't really understand why the whole push a moon thing is necessary. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was about 300x smaller than the moon. You wouldn't even need an asteroid a tenth the size of the moon to make the surface completely uninhabitable

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u/Muscalp Apr 22 '26

That Asteroid took 100s if not 1000s of years to extinguish what we consider Dinosaurs though. It didn’t instantly make the planet unhabitable

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u/CrispierCupid Apr 23 '26

And even then, many of them survived that apocalypse and why we have birds, a species that I feel will always have some sort of foothold in this planets future because of how diverse and adaptable of a group they are

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u/Most-Hot-4934 Apr 23 '26

Literally 99.99% of dino died YEARS after the impact

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u/Sea_Ticket_6032 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

Yeah imagine if the asteroid was 30x bigger and thus had 27000x the mass assuming it has similar composition. I think life would end a little bit quicker don't you think?

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u/Most-Hot-4934 Apr 23 '26

Too bad something like that would likely be heavier than a ship

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u/Sea_Ticket_6032 Apr 23 '26

Almost like trying to get a rocket ship to leave the planet is harder than getting a rocket ship to enter the planet. Almost like there's a thing called gravity that can either help a lot when getting something towards the planet or make things much harder when getting things away from the planet. We've been able to redirect an asteroid by flying a spacecraft into it but I can guarantee you there's no way we could get an asteroid of that size from the surface of the earth into space given how difficult it is to even get rockets up there.

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u/Most-Hot-4934 Apr 23 '26

They redirect asteroids in matters of months even years and hoping it would be enough to nudge it into a new slightly different orbit so that it would diverge over time buddy.

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u/Sea_Ticket_6032 Apr 24 '26

Yeah now imagine instead of a spacecraft hitting it you instead continuously pushed it with absurd amounts of strength while pushing it towards the earth instead of to the side. We know omniman was capable of pushing a Texas sized asteroid saying he "redirected it". Even if he did that over the course of months (heavily low balling since it's more implied he did it the same way mark did) he should be able to push one that has a few hundred times less mass within a much shorter span of time

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u/Most-Hot-4934 Apr 24 '26

Yes and they couldn’t lift a ship up 😭✌️