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.

Mafflez@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mint_tamas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the point is that emission from space flight to and from the asteroid (with a sufficently economic size of payload and fuel) is starting to even out. If you take that into account it’s not so obviously less harmful to the environment. But I’m almost certain that it will be way more expensive for a long time.

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  • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or figure out a space elevator which in theory would work but if it failed, it would be very bad.

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