Comment on Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.

Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All the time, but they hit long ago.

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the implication was that some genius decided to suggest the idea of dropping the asteroids on the surface before mining them the old-fashioned way. Because there’s no way that could possibly go wrong. It’s not like anybody ever makes math errors or anything.

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    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait, that speed wasn’t given in feets per minute and the mass wasn’t in pounds? I guess we’ll find out if 1800 m/s too fast for a smooth landing.

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