"Mike Combs" wrote in message ...
"AA Institute" wrote in message
om...

I hear a lot of noise about "mining the sky", and how asteroid mining
could become HOT property in the future. But how many of those
noise-makers have the vision to say let's grab an asteroid around the
Earth, where it would be infinitely easier to mine?

The AA Institute is the *FIRST* science authority on this planet with
the exceptional foresight, courage and boldness to put forward such
confident and robust proposals!!!

Ummm... NASA funded some studies of capturing asteroids in HEO using
mass-driver reaction tugs back in the 1970's.

Alright... but were they *cranky* enough to suggest carving it out in
orbit... give the Earth its first *naturally* composed rings that will
brighten our night skies with an awe-inspiring silvery light... and
build a colony inside the captured rock... that will eventually get
blasted off towards Alpha Centauri one day???!!! - LOL...

I think not. First? second? doesn't really matter. I am only
interested in what's in our best interests. I admit, may be the
commercial and technology viabilities will rule out asteroids, but I
like to think not.

Abdul