Talk:Asteroid mining

And that the costs associated with it are, *ahem* astronomical. Off-world mining and importing minerals and fuels may seem like a great idea in science fiction, where you barely need the energy of a space-fart to break the Earth's gravity well, but you would never recoup the cost to make it economically viable or recoup the energy to make it even vaguely sensible. ADK ...I'll rebel your buddy! 16:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * cf http://www.rocketpunk-observatory.com/spaceguideM-R.htm#mining ADK ...I'll voice your catamite! 16:03, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Is that supposed to be a serious source? o_O --ZooGuard (talk) 16:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Off-mission
Anyway, the article, er, stub at the moment is:
 * orphaned, i.e. no other articles link to it;
 * off-mission, and the chance of the topic of ever being on-mission are low to non-existent. --ZooGuard (talk) 16:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Along with the terraforming of Mars this is technically feasible (if presently impractical). Suggest 'developing piece into more than a sentence' (relative usefulness of rocky and metallic asteroids, and what is to be done with the waste material - the Jovial branch of Friends of the Earth would probably object to such being sent to Jupiter), give it an ice-cream and send it to a suitable future history/astronomical wiki. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:23, 20 April 2011 (UTC)