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Jan Antoš
janantos@mstdn.social@jarkko here we are on the same page, on the other side how can we go to the far distance space with humans, if we are not able to establish closed self sustainable habitat environment here on earth and we have a hell a lot nature labs for it, deserts, Antarctica, North arctic region, oceans, etc. But I can somehow imagine robotic mining on asteroids, there we might be technologically “ready” , not sure about resources to build huge vehicles for it.
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Jan Antoš
janantos@mstdn.social@jarkko on the other side moon base as low gravity factory and operations hub sort of make sense to me. Mars is sci-fi of mad men.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@janantos Asteroids are interesting because:
1. A single asteroid can have as much e.g. gold as we have here or like within figures at least. It's valuable enough that making sustainable might not require enormous cargo and obviously time tech improves and more could be mined.
2. As a side-effect we could address the classic threat scenario: asteroid impact on earth. If we can land on an asteroid, drill a hole and dig the gold, we also know how to implant a nuke, which changes the trajectory of an asteroid and saves the mankind from distinction.
It' has IMHO the best pitch of all possible out worldly things we could do in space ;-)
1. A single asteroid can have as much e.g. gold as we have here or like within figures at least. It's valuable enough that making sustainable might not require enormous cargo and obviously time tech improves and more could be mined.
2. As a side-effect we could address the classic threat scenario: asteroid impact on earth. If we can land on an asteroid, drill a hole and dig the gold, we also know how to implant a nuke, which changes the trajectory of an asteroid and saves the mankind from distinction.
It' has IMHO the best pitch of all possible out worldly things we could do in space ;-)
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@janantos Old article https://lwn.net/Articles/567288/. This company does not exist anymore (was acquired) but this article just has great bits on implementing flight control system with off-the-shelf hardware.
The ex-CEO is still active in space biz: https://www.chrislewicki.com/
Chris has so much more vision than Musk and Bezos combined together. He is the real G (eek) ;-) Kudos to Chris.
The ex-CEO is still active in space biz: https://www.chrislewicki.com/
Chris has so much more vision than Musk and Bezos combined together. He is the real G (eek) ;-) Kudos to Chris.
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Jan Antoš
janantos@mstdn.social@jarkko @jarkko we need more people like him and these guys https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/
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