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minus-squareSmuuthbranelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoThey’d have to eject it with sufficient speed to be over whatever escape velocity is for the station. I’m guessing it’s not that high. Sure, it’s the size of a moon, but its density would be far lower. It’s hollow, more like a coarse foam.
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoDepends on whose mass estimates you like… it might have a core of high density material in the reactor. If not you’re probably right though, escape velocity would be pretty low.
They’d have to eject it with sufficient speed to be over whatever escape velocity is for the station. I’m guessing it’s not that high. Sure, it’s the size of a moon, but its density would be far lower. It’s hollow, more like a coarse foam.
Depends on whose mass estimates you like… it might have a core of high density material in the reactor.
If not you’re probably right though, escape velocity would be pretty low.