I mean I wouldn’t worry about steering it.

Okay, we can get up to the speed of the asteroid ourselves, we don't even need it!

That’s true even if you’re on an asteroid. Everything is moving.

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Man, the incomprehensible size of space never ceases to amaze me..

Wait, are you talking to me through your handheld computer? Please, the science fiction.

Lmao, haven’t we landed a probe on an asteroid before?

What are you even talking about? Turning an asteroid into a ship? What? You need to chill out with the science fiction.

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Indeed, though this would be easier since you could send multiple smaller payloads that coalesce on the object. Not only this, if you somehow managed to mine and create small scale industrial works, you could maybe even make the fuel to bloody get off asteroid.

If you decided to send humans they could live inside the asteroid as a fortress from the elements, as a place from which to further develop the asteroid as a spacecraft itself. Creating many of the sensory instruments and propulsion technology or fuel, spaces for living aka creating agriculture and processing essential gasses.

If you ask why would you send humans on such a journey? Why would you send them on a voyager 1 like journey? You wouldn’t, you’d send them to a desired location, like near a habitable planet. Only it seems easier to me to do it this way than to try and send a single manned ship.

There could also be a huge planet way out near the oort cloud. With an orbital period in the thousands of years and a temperature near the background, it might take a tremendous stroke of luck to find it before we have a flotilla of Webb class space telescopes dedicated to the topic of outer solar system objects.

Indeed I like that the idea is challenged, but also the people answering must know that someone could revise my plan and make it better very easily.

I mean we had Oumuamua it feels like yesterday. And I know it isn’t the only one of it’s kind.

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I mean we landed on Bennu.

Just saying, not me personally- just to clarify.

bus is passing you with speed 94000 mph

jump on it

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Making the initial payload lighter so that you would be able to send a number of rovers to develop a more sophisticated operation, once actually on the object, rather than trying to land the entire operation there, all in one go. Which would require heavier payloads with = harder to get to such speeds.

Getting off the asteroid is just as much an issue as slowing down an independent spacecraft that has reached similar speeds and makes an interstellar journey. How do we slow down? Wouldn’t we need fuel and propulsion just as we got up to the same speed so to board the asteroid initially, or to slow down an independent spacecraft.

At least on an asteroid you can mine for the fuel and create a rocket.

Aside from all the other points raised here the odds of finding any body travelling through our system that will also interersect another system in any non-geological time scale is infinitesimal. Space is too empty and extra-solar objects are too rare.

You're asking the right kind of question, even if this particular set of answers don't prove encouraging.

So you’re saying we would need the protomolecule?

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primitive question for you - what speed supposed to have that "asteroid" (which can leave solar system)

Everything else is also moving though, some coming towards us, some moving away.

Dude how is prospecting minerals, processing them, and then manufacturing materials, and then making them into useful products a good idea to be doing on an interstellar mission.

Please just submit.