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Whilst a salient point, it wouldn't be as though they turn up one day with $10Qn of metals to sell on the market. It might take decades, even centuries to retu
by zeristor 4y ago
Whilst a salient point, it wouldn't be as though they turn up one day with $10Qn of metals to sell on the market.
It might take decades, even centuries to return that to Earth, and of course how would they be able to do that, the amount of fuel required itself would mean that the price of that would be huge.
I doubt solar sails would be that viable, and the idea of the oceans going dry in order to produce the fuel to return metals would be a tad far fetched.
- zeristor 4y agoAlthough perhaps using the less valuable parts of the asteroid as reactive mass might be useful idea. That though would end up with billions of projectiles in random orbits around the Sun.
- bsaul 4y agoaren't there any "gravitational rivers" from that asteroids one could use to slowly have the mining cargos float to an area close to earth ?