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)