Rather than quickly developing large spacecraft that could rapidly intercept and guide asteroids for impact at a suitable location for mining (Canada?), would it be easier to instead alter the trajectory of the earth (“Calling all boffins! You were jealous of Oppenheimer’s gang—now it’s your turn!”) to collide with various asteroids?
Maybe we explode all of the world’s nuclear weapons in the atmosphere at one point which may suitably nudge the earth and thus aim the asteroid at a globally chosen “catcher’s mitt” impact zone (Canada?), surrounded by eager bulldozers ready for the pickings.
Alas I think doing this will be prohibitively expensive/technologically infeasible. We did some BOTECs at the launch party and even just getting rid of leap seconds was too expensive for us.
That’s one of many reasons why I’m trying to raise 7 trillion dollars.
Rather than quickly developing large spacecraft that could rapidly intercept and guide asteroids for impact at a suitable location for mining (Canada?), would it be easier to instead alter the trajectory of the earth (“Calling all boffins! You were jealous of Oppenheimer’s gang—now it’s your turn!”) to collide with various asteroids?
Maybe we explode all of the world’s nuclear weapons in the atmosphere at one point which may suitably nudge the earth and thus aim the asteroid at a globally chosen “catcher’s mitt” impact zone (Canada?), surrounded by eager bulldozers ready for the pickings.
Alas I think doing this will be prohibitively expensive/technologically infeasible. We did some BOTECs at the launch party and even just getting rid of leap seconds was too expensive for us.
That’s one of many reasons why I’m trying to raise 7 trillion dollars.