Recent content by CB_FC

Would be hard to give you numbers without an actual target object. Unknown mass, orbit, and resource makeup, as the object is hypothetical. The questions you ask are not really relevant to the hypothesis, and don't discredit it. It would have to be one that doesn't cost that much energy to...

Y'all aren't thinking big enough. If you can efficiently bring an asteroid to Earth and slow it down enough to tether it to a space elevator, you could then start to drop the asteroid down and generate energy on the way down. And when it reaches the ground, slowly because you've been sapping...