The Kzinti Lesson is lost upon Livia Ionescu of the, er, Glaswegian Ionesci.
I actually like the idea of making mass-shifting cheaper than it is. It doesn't have to be muh astroyds. I believe the same process could, say, shift a Hohmann cargo into a cycler.
I must further point out Evan Gough's command be quiet, space elevator people
is exactly the wrong thing to say if we're putting a new Deimos into high Earth orbit for a momentum-bank. The rope doesn't have to be a full elevator; its anchor doesn't have to ride the GEO. A long strong tether will do us just fine.
It's just... do we trust this? For an Eros mass toward Earth...?
Nickster suggests Mars as the spot to tear off volatiles from a rich asteroid. The Martians would do the rest of the smelting; then blast it up to Deimos for solar-system export.
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