Comment on Could space mining alter earth orbit?

recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t say likely without some revolutionary new propulsion device. We can pump water out of the ground fairly easily but transporting material through space and then landing on the planet is still in science fiction territory.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Overthinking. Just mine a bunch of iron, or gold, or whatever you can get and drop it in big chunks right on the planet. Don’t bother trying to land the stuff. Aim for Mar A Lago. Then drive in and surface mine the payload.

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  • recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    oh derp

    thanks for commenting, reading the post again my initial answer is real stupid😬

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• gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well that sounds like an inconvenient truth that we should ignore for 100 years until it becomes a seemingly insurmountable problem so we can just shrug our shoulders and say there is nothing that can be done.

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