#NEOs ☄️ and Policy (page 309, conclusion) : The first two chapters outlined the gradual realization that #Earth 🌍 and the #Moon 🌙 are inundated with impacting bodies and there exists a population of these bodies that orbit the #Sun ☀️ near the orbit of Earth. With the development of more and more sophisticated detectors 🔭, the known population of these near-Earth objects grew dramatically—all but erasing the reluctance of many to acknowledge the #impact risk 💥 that these objects present.
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced#technology is indistinguishable from #magic.
@SkipHuffman would have to be done by #SpaceRobot with #SBSP (and probably #3dPrinted parts). If #AsteroidMining were already developed, material would also be available. AFAIK the reactor needs a minimum size, so an experiment aboard a #SpaceStation wouldn't be an option. Outside the bots would have the advantage they don't need a #Spacesuit, oxygen or sleep
Picture : #BuzzAldrin speaking with NASA's Rob Mueller about the lunar/martian/asteroid mining #robot#RASSORhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rob_Mueller_and_Buzz_Aldrin_with_RASSOR.jpg
Psyche asteroid is worth $10,000-quadrillion, and NASA wants to mine it (www.earth.com)
The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.