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The Great Lakes would make a great catcher's mitt for a few tons of air-dropped iron. Not without an environmental impact study first.
by CWuestefeld 15y ago
The Great Lakes would make a great catcher's mitt for a few tons of air-dropped iron.
Not without an environmental impact study first.
- nitrogen 15y agoMaybe China will volunteer some remote quarter of their vast stretches of land as a crash landing pad. It might be worth completely sacrificing the environmental quality of a few dozen square miles of land (there's already tons of land that's naturally uninhabitable) to gain the resources available from space.
- bdunbar 15y agoI think you're missing the point. Wrap the goods in a capsule. Attach a parachute. Now you can land it anywhere you want, lawyers permitting.
- bdunbar 15y ago(snicker)