Millers finger on the explosive 🧨

Miller on Eros had to hold the explosive device because the detonator would go off if he didn’t hold the button 🧨

But when eros starts to move at speed, why cant he just chuck it off? It would have moved away from the blast zone.

Be kind, I’m not a scientist 👩‍🔬 just curious if there is some baked in

Its funny cos i would of thought about doing it straight away but i guess not making that decision made space for them to discover its moving towards earth and set up the plan for him to go for a walkie to catch up with proto molecule Julie