Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 1 week agoIf you have the tech to do that, just capture the asteroid in orbit and mine it in space.
Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 1 week agoIf you have the tech to do that, just capture the asteroid in orbit and mine it in space.
MangoCats@feddit.it 6 days ago
I’m envisioning extracting more copper and other metals that would be utilized in space, so - yeah, if you can develop smelting and refinement capabilities on-orbit there’s some attractiveness there, but down on the mud-ball we’re going to use over a million times as much material as we are currently utilizing on orbit and beyond, so getting that material down is going to be a whole lot cheaper and more efficient as a “natural skyfall” than any kind of controlled re-entry.