Currently, there’s a company in Brooklyn, New York with an awfully specific, awfully weird mission. And — believe it or not — it doesn’t involve riding unicycles or bottling honey or knitting winter hats that look like beards or waiting in line for brunch or collecting vinyl or drinking egg creams or pushing really expensive strollers.

It involves guns. And space. And it’s called the NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). It’s defined (with visuals) in the following video:

The company, Honeybee Robotics, is based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. According to them, their interstellar firearm is a “key” to sending humans to Mars.

This from the New York Post:

“Collecting and characterizing samples from asteroids is an important science goal in itself, and NASA has identified it as a key step toward human exploration of Mars,” said Kris Zacny, vice president and director of exploration technology at Honeybee Robotics.

The technology is still in the conceptual phase, but is aimed to eventually be used as part of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission.

The gun works by dislodging chunks of asteroids out of orbit and bringing them closer to the moon, making them more accessible to scientists.