[TML] Asteroid Mining (was Molding Ships)

[Richard Aiken]

On 9/26/07, shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:

<snip of a lot of interesting stuff>

> One idea I've heard proposred is mounting *big* mass drivers on the
> asteroid and using them to kill the spin and eventually change the
> orbit. In Traveller, it's probably not worth it.

Well, while the mass driver is busy cancelling the asteroid's spin,
you could aim it's "exhaust" for a rendezvous with a processing
facility.  Couldn't you?

-- 
Richard Aiken

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