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A comment on $10 Quintilian Asteroid to Stay Out of Reach of Space Miners. Parent comment

Re:$10 Quintilian Asteroid to Stay Out of Reach of Space Miners by hedora on Friday March 17, 2017 @10:33PM (#13899589)
Put another way, we should use a space elevator and electric generator to slow useful commodities down as they fall from space to earth.

If only rockets had regenerative brakes!

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Re:$10 Quintilian Asteroid to Stay Out of Reach of Space Miners by transposed on Friday March 17, 2017 @10:59PM (#13899657)
I thought of a pulley for some reason, and on the off chance it wasn't a completely ridiculous idea googled it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator#Cross-Sec...
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