[a fool in paradise]

What happens when one of these nearby asteroids’ orbital path is affected by man’s influence and collides with the Earth? Who pays?

Maybe not colliding now, but say in 80 years or 250 or whatever.

[ClearCase_guy]

As Keynes said, in the long run, we’ll all be dead.

[Rodamala]

If they want to be a little more efficient about the whole mining thing, they would just steer it towards Earth from the get go.

I am looking for investors.

My operating plan is to find a suitable Near Earth Asteroid... about 2000’ in diameter and install ion engines to steer it towards Earth...

Landfall would be on Washington D.C., whereupon mining forces would commence digging up the natural resources already located on this continent.

Oh, and we would go right ahead and build Keystone XL while we were at it.

Who’s in?

[randog]

What happens when one of these nearby asteroids’ orbital path is affected by man’s influence and collides with the Earth?

Hmmm, that was my plan for getting the goods back to earth. Strap a rocket on the stone and point it towards Compton.

[going hot]

The trick is to control the collide, at least the coordinates. :-)

Twofers, mostly.