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

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How often do we mine asteroids on earth?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the time, but they hit long ago.

[–] Etterra 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 is too fast for a smooth landing.