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Rocks 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 th
by camiller 15y ago
Rocks 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.