Timeline for Is Asteroid Mining safe?
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| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:50 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | You don't have to "refine it into a usable building material". Just provide enough cohesion that it will stick together. Same principle as protecting soldiers by putting up an earth berm. It's not being used (necessarily) for structures, it's there to soak up impacts. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:37 | comment | added | Kromey | @WhatRoughBeast Chucking it is more expensive than refining it into a usable building material and then affixing it to your structure? How?? | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:27 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | "And the waste? Just chuck it into space." Don't see why. It will make excellent protection against the rare collisions. The longer you operate and accumulate buffer material, the safer (and more reliable) the refinery is. It will also be cheaper than chucking it, so the refinery will be more profitable. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | Kromey | @Jim2B Edited to reflect what I meant about dust/pebbles being less of a worry (versus not a worry at all). You're absolutely right that even really small things, given enough speed, can be very dangerous, and hopefully this clears it up that I was referring not to absolute danger, but to relative danger: A very fast piece of dust might nearly punch a hole in a window, but an equally-fast rock the size of Texas will utterly pulverize the shuttle without even slowing! It's also worth noting that that speck nearly punched a hole, proving the point that a tough shell can be enough protection. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 19:23 | history | edited | Kromey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2015 at 19:02 | comment | added | Jim2B | You mentioned that pebbles weren't worth worrying about. Except that a speck of dust nearly put a hole through the Space Shuttles wind screen. Things in space move incredibly fast - making even small objects very dangerous. This makes working on the inside of an asteroid very attractive. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 19:00 | history | edited | Jim2B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2014 at 11:13 | vote | accept | JFBM | ||
| S Dec 11, 2014 at 19:01 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Dec 11, 2014 at 19:01 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 18:39 | history | edited | Kromey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarify that there are other options than just abandoning the facility.
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| S Dec 11, 2014 at 16:38 | history | suggested | Kaz Wolfe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
HGttG reference in starting line.
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| Dec 10, 2014 at 16:37 | history | answered | Kromey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |