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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26188501, member: 27832&quot;]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Network" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Network" rel="nofollow">Not always</a>. (Orbital mechanics is really, <i>really</i> weird.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But by the time we could put large-scale mining machinery to work on an <i>asteroid</i>, lots of other things would have to be different, too. If you could use material from the asteroid to make more solar panels, wiring, and factory equipment, the whole asteroid economy could grow exponentially, with little or no cost on Earth.</p><p><br /></p><p>The scary thing, given the state of the world right now, is that the &quot;value&quot; of a ten-thousand-ton delivery of metals depends less on the particular metals, and more on what city it hits at several miles per second.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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