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    Default Re: Asteroid Mining

    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    Someone was on this already, but it wasn't answered..

    My first thought was to "shoot" whatever material you gained down to earth. Have a set area of sea, build hauling facilities around it, and then just send down packages as they come.

    But yeah, would be rubbish if they missed and hit Tokyo. However, don't we have the tech to more or less make sure we wouldn't?

    The problem as I see it for just parachuting resources down is the fact we will need to parachute vast amounts down this would require lots and lots of containers to come down. The size would be limited by the safety we require of the landing basically It would not be advisable to parachute as much ore as say a supertanker down.

    Could work but it would require that resource prices rise a bit something that will happen as we eat them up.


    Also few people already talked about constructing and welding in zero-g to be honest I'm not sure how you would inspect a weld in zero-g. Ultrasound is out unless performed inside a fabrication facility and in an already high radiation enviroment X-rays could be out too. You couldnt use liquid inspection as it will just float away that leave only magnetic inspection but were probably not going to be welding materials that could be inspected by this.



    That means were probably stuck with riveting for now as it could be tested probably in zero-g.
    Last edited by gaelic cowboy; 04-26-2012 at 10:56.
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