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Mercury provides solar power but you need a lot more energy to get from there to earth. The asteroid belt still provides adequate solar power with I'd guess an
by NotSammyHagar 6y ago
Mercury provides solar power but you need a lot more energy to get from there to earth. The asteroid belt still provides adequate solar power with I'd guess an easier ability to 'fall on the earth'. It wasn't clear whether the goal of your invader was destruction or takeover. Falling rocks would do the destruction job.
- rriepe 6y agoThe point is obviously more probes. I think a sufficient gravity field and planetary mass is going to let you work a lot faster. Robotic probes with basically no atmosphere to get through means you can use kinetic cannons to get off-world. Your initial "factory line" would be a mostly underground equatorial band on Mercury.
- kentonv 6y agoMaybe, but the trajectory of the object seems more consistent with having dropped someone off at Mercury, not the asteroid belt.