[ExI] Mining the Sky SL Talk I gave today

samantha sjatkins at mac.com
Wed Apr 28 22:47:49 UTC 2010


spike wrote:
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> 
>> ...On Behalf Of samantha
>> ...
>> I am talking about ATENS which are around 1 AU.  So where 
>> does 2.6 AU come from?
>>
>> - samantha
> 
> 2.6 AU is where most of the asteroids are scattered.  True there are a few
> Atens.

There are more than enough near earth asteroids to build out space 
habitats at L5 and considerable earth side infrastructure including 
enough space based solar to meet twice our projected end of decade 
energy needs.  That is what my talk was about going after.

- samantha




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