Asteroid Mining?
August 7, 2021 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2021 at 9:41 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
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Necroing this thread because I have another science question that Google can't answer.
Would mining plutonium from asteroids be a viable way to power small civilizations living on the asteroid belt? What about the Kuiper belt? Would there be less plutonium out there or the same as the asteroid belt?
Same question for the Oort cloud. Plutonium out there? It doesn't have to be plutonium specifically. Any material capable of energy creating fission would work. Since the Oort civilizations can't use solar power as readily, the presence (or absence) of plutonium will shape how I create their culture.
I'm also wondering if Googling a bunch of stuff about plutonium puts you on an FBI watch list.
Necroing this thread because I have another science question that Google can't answer.
Would mining plutonium from asteroids be a viable way to power small civilizations living on the asteroid belt? What about the Kuiper belt? Would there be less plutonium out there or the same as the asteroid belt?
Same question for the Oort cloud. Plutonium out there? It doesn't have to be plutonium specifically. Any material capable of energy creating fission would work. Since the Oort civilizations can't use solar power as readily, the presence (or absence) of plutonium will shape how I create their culture.
I'm also wondering if Googling a bunch of stuff about plutonium puts you on an FBI watch list.
