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To: SunkenCiv

It’s possible that some time in our history we will
learn to mine the gas giants.


38 posted on 08/28/2015 10:15:59 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Robert Forward’s “Saturn Rukh” is about a mission to study the possibility of mining the planet for helium 3.

Science fiction with lots of good solid science about orbital and rotational velocities and escape velocities etc. Bob Forward was a real deal physicist.


42 posted on 08/28/2015 10:21:51 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: tet68

Mining Saturn’s rings for water (Asimov short story) might be — might be — feasible, but it seems more likely that the only space resources likely to be economical and practical to exploit for the next few centuries anyway will be comets and asteroids.


48 posted on 08/28/2015 10:57:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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