Asteroid Belt First

In a message dated 8/30/02 9:36:31 PM, spider_boris@... writes:

<< There may be many such missions before a suitable
near earth asteroid can be selected; once a suitable candidate is
found, the same robots which assay the rock should set up the
infrastructure to dismantle it. >>

Good to see you again Spider! I got a better idea for such robot ship. Pack
as many as you can into one or two big, refitted rocket (say from Russia or
such) and lauch that. Once it get close to where the mass of some rocks are,
launch the birds on their own trips. When they touch on the rocks, they can
do the work and when they're finished, have them leave a beacon or a small
kit on the rock and have them jump off into space to another rock and again.
This way, you can keep using the same tools.

Carl E. Mullin
visionary artist and entrepreneur
homo asteralis
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