• Saigonauticon@voltage.vn
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    8 months ago

    No you’ve got it backward. The mining is a cover. You look for celestial bodies that require only a small delta-v to redirect to a collision event.

    It’s a proper hostage situation, once you’ve got the infrastructure to replicate it more cheaply than people can defend against it.

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        8 months ago

        Oh yeah. I’d consult on that for sure. Tricking Silicon Valley to invest in something that then holds Earth hostage instead. Fun plot.

        …although I bet they’d still invest if you just told them. As long as the financials work.