Damn this has everything: universally interesting, wild speculation shoehorned into real science, misunderstanding that all things happening in interstellar scale are unlikely, casually dropping cool big rare terms for space shit

(but why would optimum mission be a head on collision? and not getting something flying its near trajectory at near speed?)

If i didn't know so much about how broken the world is already, this is like life path defining stuff

Clearly the best mission would be to shoot something to something it into mars so we can check it out someday.

Then after that success, be inspired to fill the whole outer solar system with somethings, capable of redirecting everything into mars for later catching or eventually murdering all musk's future offspring