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This seems to be targeted at other planets, not space-space. For space use I always wondered about how one could slice up nickel iron asteroids into 50x50x100c
by Lerc 2y ago
This seems to be targeted at other planets, not space-space.
For space use I always wondered about how one could slice up nickel iron asteroids into 50x50x100cm blocks and then start building things out of those. Assuming you can do a clean cut the surface wouldn't oxidize so they should just contact weld back together.
Slicing process left as an exercise to the reader.
- geon 2y agoWas it Artur C Clarke who suggested melting an asteroid and blowing a huge bubble from it?
- Lerc 2y agoI've heard of that approach. Not sure if it was Clarke, I always figured you'd need a lot of pressure to do that and it would be tricky to stop it from leaking out holes. Another idea I had was making a sphere of chicken wire around a small comet. If you melted the comet would the water go out and condense onto the chicken wire eventually making a huge hollow sphere of ice.