mox@lemmy.sdf.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoHow we can mine asteroids for space foodwww.cambridge.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down13 cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.world
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkHow we can mine asteroids for space foodwww.cambridge.orgmox@lemmy.sdf.org to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square9fedilink cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.world
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down10·8 days agoYou can’t even mine an asteroid. End of that conversation right there.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoJust remember that it’s easier to train a miner to be an astronaut than it is to train an astronaut to be a miner and you’ll be alright.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·8 days agoWe could easily place landmines on an asteroid.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoThere’s no land on asteroids. Please think.
minus-squareieatpwns@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoUse your space noodle. You can land on a giant rock hurtling through space
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoMost asteroids are barely held together dust and rocks, not solid monoliths like most people think.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-27 days agoYou said it yourself. It’s ROCK, not LAND. You can only rock on it. Edit: looks like y’all broke your funny bones today
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·8 days agoNot with that attitude.
You can’t even mine an asteroid. End of that conversation right there.
Just remember that it’s easier to train a miner to be an astronaut than it is to train an astronaut to be a miner and you’ll be alright.
We could easily place landmines on an asteroid.
There’s no land on asteroids. Please think.
Use your space noodle. You can land on a giant rock hurtling through space
Most asteroids are barely held together dust and rocks, not solid monoliths like most people think.
You said it yourself. It’s ROCK, not LAND. You can only rock on it.
Edit: looks like y’all broke your funny bones today
Not with that attitude.