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If I was them, I would try to move the whole asteroid. Maybe Amun is too big, but there will be smaller ones. Whith a little billiard playing with gravity, they could be "smoothly crashed" into the Moon, or even some deserted Earth location. Maybe ideal result would be placing it in not-so-low Earth orbit and make the extracted materials go spiraling down to the surface.

Disclaimer: I haven't the faintest idea of the amount of energy needed to move celestial bodies, but I guess it could be made so the first targets will be small ones and using the resources obtained from them, create stronger and stronger infrastructure to capture bigger ones.

EDIT: Archimedes already said it. To move worlds they first need a big enough lever and a place to put it.



The raisin d'être for mining asteroids is that it's cheaper than mining the moon...


"Mining the Moon" as in digging holes there is not the same as picking up the pieces of a crashed metal mountain. Anyway, forget that. Put the asteroid in Earth's orbit and work from there. What about the value of a new moon that could be used as a gigantic station?


Char doesn't need any more things to send crashing into Earth.


*raison d'être


It sounded delicious though :-)




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