No worries! We’re working on that, too!
Melting the ice caps shifts mass, and therefore, gravity, away from the largely unpopulated poles and nearer to where the people live.

But this problem will not solve itself with any one solution. We must also petition our government to act now to stage a mission to nudge the asteroid into earth’s orbit! With modern science, we can do this.
I believe in humanity’s power to defeat humanity!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Gonna take a bit more than a nudge. Even if we put it on a collision course, it would only be travelling ≈ 17,000 kph, on impact. Barely even moving in intrastellar space. That's only 0.0000157024 times C. We'd need to get it moving to at least 0.0001 C to get it to be a world killer, maybe even 0.001 C. So somehow we need to figure out how to get the thing moving at ≈ 170,000 kph to ≈ 1,700,000 kph for it to have enough energy to be a world killer. Right now it's a measly little one megaton explosion.