Space is starting to look like the better mining operation
Space is starting to look like the better mining operation
Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.
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My guess is that we won't be doing any digging on asteroids at first. We will send a Spaceship (with 100tn of cargo capacity) and grab a whole small asteroid. Then the spaceship with the small asteroid Inside the cargo bay will return to earth. It sounds science fiction but don't forget we have already collected material from asteroids twice (the Japanese returned with 5gr and tre US 250gr).
You don't even have to go very far, there are hundreds of small asteroids between the moon and earth. I think we will be able to collect a whole small asteroid in 10 years max.
Can't wait for them to try and redirect an asteroid into orbit, fuck it up, and cause it to crash into earth
Yeah, I’d vote for a space treaty saying that if you bring a chunk of rock toward earth that is too big to burn up in the atmosphere, it’s a potential act of war that can be dealt with ASAP
“ I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!”
Aw cmon, we’ll turn them into moons and harvest them!