mox@lemmy.sdf.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoHow we can mine asteroids for space foodwww.cambridge.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down13 cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down10·3 months agoYou can’t even mine an asteroid. End of that conversation right there.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·3 months agoNot with that attitude.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·3 months agoWe could easily place landmines on an asteroid.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoThere’s no land on asteroids. Please think.
minus-squareieatpwns@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoUse your space noodle. You can land on a giant rock hurtling through space
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoYou said it yourself. It’s ROCK, not LAND. You can only rock on it. Edit: looks like y’all broke your funny bones today
minus-squarejollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoMost asteroids are barely held together dust and rocks, not solid monoliths like most people think.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoJust remember that it’s easier to train a miner to be an astronaut than it is to train an astronaut to be a miner and you’ll be alright.
You can’t even mine an asteroid. End of that conversation right there.
Not with that attitude.
We could easily place landmines on an asteroid.
There’s no land on asteroids. Please think.
Use your space noodle. You can land on a giant rock hurtling through space
You said it yourself. It’s ROCK, not LAND. You can only rock on it.
Edit: looks like y’all broke your funny bones today
Most asteroids are barely held together dust and rocks, not solid monoliths like most people think.
Just remember that it’s easier to train a miner to be an astronaut than it is to train an astronaut to be a miner and you’ll be alright.