To: BobZimmerman
gee, what could go wrong?
2 posted on
08/25/2011 10:05:48 AM PDT by
AdSimp
To: BobZimmerman
In before the ‘we are doomed’ crowd.
3 posted on
08/25/2011 10:06:42 AM PDT by
mnehring
To: BobZimmerman
Worse, an explosion might rip a rubble pile apart, sending the wreckage on a collision course with Earth. To put it mildly, such an event would have serious liability concerns for any private company. Oops!
5 posted on
08/25/2011 10:09:11 AM PDT by
HerrBlucher
("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
To: BobZimmerman
30’ wide? They propose doing something like this for a rock that will fit in a big mining loader with room to spare?
That thing better be made of solid gold to justify the price.
6 posted on
08/25/2011 10:09:54 AM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: BobZimmerman
One 30-foot-wide asteroid, 2008EA9, will actually be in the right place for this technique in 2049And what benefit does this 30 ft lump of rock have over any other 30 foot lump of rock already on the surface of the earth? Typical space cadet stuff. Spend a 100 million dollars and get nothing for it but a rock.
8 posted on
08/25/2011 10:11:38 AM PDT by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: BobZimmerman
I'm noticing an alarming trend in that most published papers concerning the sciences these days usually mention at least one person of Chinese decent.
I've heard the Chinese have more gifted students than America has students. Just sayin'...
11 posted on
08/25/2011 10:15:50 AM PDT by
Errant
To: BobZimmerman
Robert Zimmerman
12 posted on
08/25/2011 10:18:09 AM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: BobZimmerman
Sounds like a perfect government project. Spend a trillion dollars for a 30 foot rock.
Shhhhhhh......don't let Obama learn about it!
14 posted on
08/25/2011 10:25:24 AM PDT by
PALIN SMITH
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
To: BobZimmerman
MOOOOOOOOOOON ZERO TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
15 posted on
08/25/2011 10:26:34 AM PDT by
struggle
To: BobZimmerman
Nothing new here... The problem, as they will find, is safety. If the rock gets out of control, do you want to be the one to tell the earths population that they’re now a possible target for an extinction level event?
Yeah...
20 posted on
08/25/2011 10:46:02 AM PDT by
Freeport
(The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
To: BobZimmerman
Put it in orbit around the moon or a Lagrange point. It would be safer while still keeping most of the benefits.
Anyway, Earth still has plenty of resources. Mining asteroids could be more economical hundreds or thousands of years from now when resources are more scarce and technology is more reliable.
24 posted on
08/25/2011 10:50:29 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: BobZimmerman
Oh, yeah. “Oooh, ahhh”, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.
25 posted on
08/25/2011 10:52:50 AM PDT by
Leroy S. Mort
(Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
To: BobZimmerman
“What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey! That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary.”
- George Bailey, “It’s A Wonderful Life”
To: BobZimmerman
39 posted on
08/25/2011 12:16:42 PM PDT by
Errant
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