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Is it possible to use asteroids as spacecraft?



The image above this text is David Hardy's vision of asteroid-looking spacecraft. The spacecraft has ion engines for maneuvers. In Hardy's vision is a possibility. The craft could be equipped with antimatter or powerful laser systems. That means it could defend itself against incoming asteroids. But that system could also bombard planets by using antimatter ions. 

The fictional asteroid craft was created by equipping the asteroid with systems like ion engines and other things like self-defense lasers. And maybe that kind of system is possible in the future. 

There was once a plan to use asteroids as bombs. In those plans. The creators of those kinds of weapons didn't mean to use natural asteroids. They planned to use aerodynamically shaped concrete profiles that will shoot against ground targets from the orbital trajectory. Those ammunitions destroy targets by using kinetic energy. And that's why those weapons are called meteorite bombers. 




Using asteroids as spacecraft is not a new idea. In some futuristic theories, alien civilizations and maybe humans in the far future will use asteroid spacecraft as reconnaissance or intelligence vehicles. The idea is that the craft that looks like an asteroid would operate unseen in interesting solar systems without disturbing other intelligent species. Those space reconnaissance spacecraft could be manned or controlled by artificial intelligence. 

In this text, I want to highlight one thing. That is that the asteroid recon vehicle is not necessarily manned. It might be a probe that is searching for intelligent lifeforms. When the asteroid Omuamua arrived in our solar system, that caused discussions about the possibility that it was an alien reconnaissance vehicle. The fact is this: nobody landed on Oumuamua. And that means we don't know if that thing is some probe or not so that thing is officially open. 


By the way...


Could the "Flying Dutchman" mean some UFO? 




Regularly people think that "Flying Dutchman" is fata morgana. If the light comes at a certain angle it will make the ship's shape in the air or rain. In some other theories, a tiny wormhole or Enstein-Rose bridge acts like a light cable and brings light from the past to modern times. 

Sometimes is introduced a theory famous "Flying Dutchman" is the alien recon vehicle. That theory is not mentioned, at least very often. And nobody ever visited the flying dutchman's deck. The thing is that the world is full of mysteries. And we should keep our minds open. So this is the reason why I wrote that the "Flying Dutchman" can be UFO.

 Nuclear reactors and ion engines could give a powerful propulsion system to the vehicle that masked to sail. The sails would be the heat exchangers for the nuclear reactor. The system could fly by using vertically and horizontally aimed ion engines. That vehicle could fly for years if it uses nuclear power. 

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