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Cruciferous posted...

I see what you're saying but there must be like a perfect angle and amount of force that would do it for us. Taking the spin of the earth and such into consideration. If we can use math to basically blind shoot a rocket into the surface of a moon millions of miles away why can't we figure that out?

still ELI5 I am being half serious tho

Even putting aside the dizzying amount of physics to consider here, how would you even go about creating a force that can shift something that weighs 13 septillion pounds, rotating at 1,000 miles an hour and travelling at 67 thousand miles an hour through space? Is there a God-sized finger around ready to poke it like a basketball on a god-sized globetrotter's finger?