Asteroid Mining Recipe

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Ingredients

• Electric asteroid-mining spaceship
• Space mining and processing equipment
• Giant mirrors
• Grinders
• Centrifuges
• Heat shielded capsules filled with gas bubbles

Instructions

1. Build an electric asteroid-mining spaceship to travel to asteroids.
2. Find a near-Earth asteroid and secure it by vaporizing material with a laser or stopping the rotation with thrusters.
3. Wait for the right moment to push the asteroid in the right direction to take it near the Moon and put it in a stable orbit around Earth.
4. Install the space mining and processing equipment in orbit and move it towards the asteroid.
5. Use giant mirrors to focus sunlight and heat up asteroid rock to boil out the gases.
6. Use grinders to break up the dried rocks into gravel and dust, and centrifuges to separate dense from light elements.
7. Extract precious metals from the asteroid's mass.
8. Load the precious metals into heat shielded capsules filled with gas bubbles.
9. Drop the capsules into the oceans where ships tow them away.
10. Use the infrastructure and experience gained to make more sophisticated missions and eventually stop mining on Earth.

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