/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10880703
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce that this is absolutely, and immutably based. Thank you and goodnight.

>>10629046
based

>>10484198
>Slip up on the charcoal. Admittedly I have not looked into steel manufacturing in space. I fully expect to be able to get all the steel I need from Mars and I anticipate others will be responsible for that process.
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>I have serious doubts that asteroid mining will be done in the initial stages of space colonisation. The focus of industry will be on Mars for a very long time. It simplifies things. In this case your manufacturing industry would be much better off on Mars adapting to low-g instead of inventing a whole new series of processes for zero-g. Please consider this.
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>The moon I think will become a spaceport, quarantine facility and military outpost for global superpowers. Any industry there will be dealing with immense amounts of red tape. Whoever controls the moon will control earth by proxy, and so no individual government will be allowed control of the moon and no company will be trusted by all sides to not throw big rocks down at the earth.
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>I don't see the loose debre as much of a problem. Firstly you don't need to land your whole ship, just a smaller craft and early belters will probably be hunting for gold. Interestingly the processes you have described will probably have caused the gold to settle right at the center of the asteroid. Food for thought,, this is new to me.
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>Anyway secondly if you match velocity with the asteroid insted of orbiting it you will be travelling at the same speed as the debree and you just need to cover your rocket exhaust etc to prevent objects getting in there and causing issues.
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>As a final point I suspect asteroid mining will involve encasing the entire thing in a bag, can or balloon. It would be heated, spun, the different elements extruded and a solid lump of slag would be left in place. You are right about one thing. Asteroid mining is hard and I haven't come up with a fleshed out plan for actually mining them.
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