Comments on: Voltaire As Applied To Asteroid Mining.

By: Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors. « The Scientific Gamer

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors. « The Scientific Gamer — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:20:22 +0000

[...] economically viable to kickstart. It’s a good idea, but it’s a good idea in the same way that mining the asteroids is a good idea: it has the potential for huge returns, but it requires a significant investment [...]

By: aosher

aosher — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:47:56 +0000

Tssh, it’s like no-one’s seen that documentary Michael Bay made a few years ago – what’s it called? Oh yes, Transformers 3.

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:40:48 +0000

But don’t satellites need to be adjusted to keep them in orbit, so isn’t there the risk it might fall on our head?

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:40:01 +0000

Just do the dark side!

By: hentzau

hentzau — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Bit harder to strip-mine the moon, on account of people complaining about ruining the pristine lunar landscape.

By: slimbuk

slimbuk — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:40:04 +0000

What about the moon, couldn’t we mine that instead?

By: hentzau

hentzau — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:03:03 +0000

Legrunge points are something I was mulling posting about, but they have a small problem vis a vis asteroids because they’re all the way over there (1.5 million kilometres away) and if you can shift the asteroid in the first place you might as well put it in GEO, which is substantially closer. Could also use it as a counterweight for a space elevator then!

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:17:03 +0000

I keep hearing all this mention of “legrange points” or some such fancy sounding idea, where an asteroid could be trapped rather close to earth. Surely that makes it feasable, assuming we figured out a way to move the buggers?

By: hentzau

hentzau — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:05:27 +0000

Robot unicorns and airborne nanites within two centuries, yes.

By: Smurf

Smurf — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:07:02 +0000

So what you’re saying is that within the next century we’ll have unicorns and magic pixie dust?