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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s (compared to 11.2km/s on Earth) so you'd have to be throwing it pretty hard

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Even if you went to some asteroids that have low escape velocities, a spacecraft still has all of the mass of a spacecraft--probably a few 1000 kg. So you probably can't get it going fast enough, even if you can escape yourself by jumping.

[–] zedgeist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish I could escape myself..

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Man even a 5.6 is only 0.9km/s. I thought we could give the moon a ring of bullets.