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I want to be able to mine asteroids for scarce resources using robotic mining drones.I want to be able to save us from world-ending collisions.I do not want to be able to redirect asteroids to earth to use as weapons.https://t.co/OV34CbXVSq https://t.co/P4SCYFZcnC
Anybody else learn about the physics of using lasers to atomize matter to affect the trajectory of long range asteroid impacts?https://t.co/RWTWYPiqqz
"Few of these ideas are new. An airborne laser was successfully tested against missiles in 2010. The Obama administration poured hundreds of millions of dollars into space sensors. The vision of orbiting lasers harks back to [...] “Star Wars”."https://t.co/KZJoTIuB0h
I got this song stuck in my head, then I looked up what it was from.https://t.co/tf5fw1HVSq
We are threading a needle.https://t.co/owUIsT5jbM
I want to build the ants. I want to continue our quest to become Von Neumann probes.https://t.co/u8BM3LQcK6
Watching the trajectory of our species sail between Scylla and Charybdis. https://t.co/0ijGhkSplm
@DanielleFong @poppy_haze @elonmusk You can mine precious metals from the dust on the side of the road, but yields are very low. If we can get plants or soil bacteria to concentrate it for us, using sun, we would cut tons of CO2. I even made a joke about it being a way to fund mining drones.https://t.co/Qo95dcyCuU
Odysseus, trusting his men to to not let him go as he stares into the temptation of the siren's song.https://t.co/6TkQ6vGy3y