AsterAnts

> In response to, "Think about DS1, or NEAR. ... you're trying to
make it
> sound super complex when really it isn't." Maybe so, but DS1 and
NEAR did
> not soft land, did not arrange to return anything even themselves,
took

Compairing apples and oranges. NEAR *DID* softland (relatively
speaking, less than .1km/sec), DS1 only did a flyby.

> years to get to where they were going, and were on the verge of
failing at
> their final targets. And what was their cost? This makes my case
rather
> nicely, I think.

>

Returning asteroidal material in the AsterAnts scenario to return 1-
2 tonns of material may only require a Titan Rocket launch. Returning
the same mass of Lunar material would require multiple Titan launches.

king_rodent (putting the eek in geek)