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Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth. (arstechnica.com)

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Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.::Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.

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[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

How often do we mine asteroids on earth?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

All the time, but they hit long ago.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think the implication was that some genius decided to suggest the idea of dropping the asteroids on the surface before mining them the old-fashioned way. Because there's no way that could possibly go wrong. It's not like anybody ever makes math errors or anything.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait, that speed wasn’t given in feets per minute and the mass wasn’t in pounds? I guess we’ll find out if 1800 m/s is too fast for a smooth landing.

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