RE: Deep Impact

Weslake, Brad BG (Weslake.Brad.BG@bhp.com.au)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:31:21 +1100


Where would we get the energy to nudge the asteroid into orbit?

While I'm writing, I may as well add a question I have been meaning to
ask, prompted by the UNIX mail readers' dislike of HTML mail: Does Meta
Mail such as that sent by MS Exchange also cause problems for you?

I might add that I don't use Exchange through choice, it is part of the
"Standard Desktop" where I work.

Brad.

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> From: Michael Mealling[SMTP:michael@bailey.dscga.com]
> Reply To: extropians@extropy.com
> Sent: Friday, 13 March 1998 11:56
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Cc: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: Deep Impact
>
> John K Clark said this:
> -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > <snip synopsis of mile wide asteroid>
> >
> > It looks like H bombs may actually find something useful to do.
> >
>
> Don't blow it up! Capture it! It's a 1 mile strip miners dream. This
> way
> we don't have to go get one. It came to us! Just launch some equipment
> to guide it into the right orbit and mine the hell out of it.
>
> We really need to know its velocity in a bad way. A slow asteroid
> hitting
> wouldn't be to bad. A fast one would be very bad...
>
> -MM
>
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