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How do you think mining will be handled?
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:35 pm
by RogueZephyr
Mining lasers and machines or some other way ?
Re: How do you think mining will be handled?
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:00 pm
by Philip Coutts
I would imagine it is either going to be mining lasers / transfer beam or a drone of some sort because we aren't going to be able to land on anything to set up a mining machine of any sort.
Re: How do you think mining will be handled?
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 4:40 pm
by Silverwolf
Either mining laser
or send droids to it and back.
or nano bots.
Limit theory already does it with lasers if I remember correctly.
Re: How do you think mining will be handled?
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 6:30 pm
by Avago-Earo
I'm not really a sci-fi reader unless you count The War Of The Worlds (I had a go at Aasimov's 'Robots Of Dawn' when I was a kid but preferred the looking at the picture on the cover). So how do mining lasers work? I mean a laser breaking something down to smaller pieces or even to molecular scale I think I can imagine, but how is it collected? If I'm right lasers (when considered physically) are made up of photons so even if there was a direct reflection back to the ship I don't get how this would be carried with the beam. I should have watched star trek more.