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It's a rock. Just drop it in chunks of suitable size.
by lutorm 15y ago
It's a rock. Just drop it in chunks of suitable size.
- camiller 15y agoRocks with enough metal ores to be useful and in sizes that can make it through re-entry with a useful quantity of material left tend to do other undesirable things, like smash stuff, just ask the dinosaurs.
- lutorm 15y agojust ask the dinosaurs Well, that one might be on the large side. Besides, a controlled re-entry from LEO would have lower speeds than a random solar system impactor and could also use aerobraking. It still might be too risky, but it doesn't seem totally, obviously infeasible to me.