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With a relatively small initial investment, you can build reentry vehicles out of the asteroid, depending on the specific composition.
by randallsquared 1y ago
With a relatively small initial investment, you can build reentry vehicles out of the asteroid, depending on the specific composition.
- pfdietz 1y agoOr, just fashion the metal into ingots that are coated with an ablator (carbon, say) and allow them to enter as artificial meteorites. Suitably sized they will hit the ground at reasonable speed and can be dug up.
- Teever 1y agoEven better than carbon use an ablative made out of olivine that can sequester CO2 as it ablates. That way by offloading mining and refining into space to prevent the damage that these activities incur on earth you're also undoing damage to Earth from past human activities.