"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will aim to land on the asteroid and begin extraction."
But these areas aren’t free. There are people or organizations (governments) owning these lands. They will want to have at least a non significant amount of your profits. You would have to redirect the asteroid with some precision and it would take a lot of resources to do so. You will loose 50% to 90% of the asteroids mass on atmospheric entry.
The redirection alone will cost you several billions and to get your money back the asteroid would have to be of a certain size so it’s impact will have the effect of several megatons TNT (equivalent of hundreds of Hiroshima bombs). It will create a several hundred meter wide crater and have a much bigger blast radius.
I don’t think we should give Elon Musk any stupid ideas…
Of course the government leaning the land for the landing is going to ask for a cut, but if traditional mining companies extracting materials on earth pay nothing already (if we include the externallities of mining pollution), they’re not going to pay a lot for something that create value where before was just a dessert and the landing can be shopped around.
But these areas aren’t free. There are people or organizations (governments) owning these lands. They will want to have at least a non significant amount of your profits. You would have to redirect the asteroid with some precision and it would take a lot of resources to do so. You will loose 50% to 90% of the asteroids mass on atmospheric entry.
The redirection alone will cost you several billions and to get your money back the asteroid would have to be of a certain size so it’s impact will have the effect of several megatons TNT (equivalent of hundreds of Hiroshima bombs). It will create a several hundred meter wide crater and have a much bigger blast radius.
I don’t think we should give Elon Musk any stupid ideas…
Of course the government leaning the land for the landing is going to ask for a cut, but if traditional mining companies extracting materials on earth pay nothing already (if we include the externallities of mining pollution), they’re not going to pay a lot for something that create value where before was just a dessert and the landing can be shopped around.
And the rest sounds like problems to be solve.