You’ve seen this picture dozens of times. The frantic crew pushes the ship to its structural limits to prevent a killer asteroid from destroying a planet that’s home to billions of lives.
The tension builds as the captain must decide whether to use all available power to push the asteroid away from the planet’s path – and risk sending a limp ship into gravitational spiral plummeting to the surface of the planet it wishes to save – or keep enough power in reserve to possibly save the ship and risk failing to budge the asteroid enough to alter its trajectory.
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