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khafra on April 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Statement from Elon Musk

I just hope we can get started with the asteroid mining for rare earth metals before we run out of the rare earth metals to build computers that will get us there.

JulianMorrison on April 16, 2010 [–]

I wonder how much delta-V it would take to push a metallic asteroid onto the Interplanetary Transport Network? The mountain could come to Mohammed.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ...)

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