One step backwards (Step zero) Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: One step backwards (Step zero)
# 11403 bywlm_efn@... on June 8, 2010, 8:11 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
The bigger asteroids we don't want, because if something goes wrong
it could be a disaster, and because the mass-driver would have to be
correspondingly much larger. A *very* small asteroid about 10 meters
in diameter may sound like nothing, but is 2900 tons. And the smaller
ones pass near the Earth far more often than the bigger ones. Try
those.