A whole new form of global warming! Woohoo! In the process of making space
livable (mining there would be a great way to start building huge structures
in space) we'd be making Earth unlivable. This in turn should speed up the
colonization efforts of space and planets which causes more global warming
etc. etc.
Nice touch!
Sander
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Clawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ERPS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:56 PM
Subject: RE: [ERPS] Cute Asteroid
> Especially if you are intending the upper atmosphere to absorb what
amounts
> to kilotons of excess energy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:53 PM
> To: ERPS
> Subject: Re: [ERPS] Cute Asteroid
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Michael Wallis wrote:
> > My concern is still the failure mode of some tired space miner
> > shooting his pile of refined metal into the Earth instead of beside
it...
>
> I think the answer is that the tired space miner sells his pile to the
> intended customer *before* shooting it, rather than afterward. The
> shooting is then done by professionals with Reentry Pilot licences, who do
> it routinely and have multiply-redundant navigation and insurance against
> screwups.
>
> It will, in any case, be necessary to limit use of aerobraking reentry
> eventually. It creates noticeable amounts of nitrogen oxides in the upper
> atmosphere, and probably isn't a good thing in really large quantities.
>
> Henry Spencer
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