11-18-2020, 03:57 PM | #11 |
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Re: Defending Asteroids [Space/Spaceships]
The best defense for an attempt to coopt an asteroid mining operating is just to shoot missiles at the unauthorized vessels heading for the asteroid. Problem solved.
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11-18-2020, 04:40 PM | #12 |
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Re: Defending Asteroids [Space/Spaceships]
At that point, your impactor is a missile; and if we're adding a military guidance system and course adjustment to one side, we can add point-defence to the other.
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11-18-2020, 06:35 PM | #13 | |
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Sure, the impactor could be described as a missile. So could a hobbyist RC airplane.
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11-18-2020, 06:41 PM | #14 |
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Re: Defending Asteroids [Space/Spaceships]
Blowing up asteroids to prevent asteroid mining is on a par with bombing open pit mines to prevent mining: utterly not worth the bother. If you want to sabotage someone's mining, blow up the actually valuable stuff: the hardware they're using to do it.
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11-18-2020, 07:10 PM | #16 | |
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M-type asteroids simply aren't rare enough to be a meaningful resource constraint until you're getting pretty close to a Kardashev-II civilization. |
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11-18-2020, 10:26 PM | #17 | |
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The point of using a mostly-dumb high energy weapon is that a big impactor (or a big bomb) that smashes everything around is often cheaper and easier to deliver than many small smart weapons that individually break the valuable bits.
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11-18-2020, 10:52 PM | #18 | |
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Re: Defending Asteroids [Space/Spaceships]
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At which point we need to ask what resources are available, and what the local government situation is like, because if one side or both can send missiles at each other, I'm going to guess "not much". Noting here that it's easier to sneak mass driver shot through a gap in a surveillance system, than it is to sneak a missile. Sneaking a mass driver shot just requires that there be predictable gaps in coverage, and that the system traffic management doesn't manage to monitor most of the rocks floating around; sneaking a missile requires lengthy gaps in coverage. Either of which fits in with local government being... scarce. Which reminds me of a video game I played around the mid-1990s that was fairly literally "Asteroid mining colony wars: the game".
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11-19-2020, 03:31 AM | #19 | |
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And if, say, your asteroid miners send their cargo home in one-way transfer/reentry pods instead of re-usable freight ships, those pods will have all the functions an intra-belt strategic missile needs and then some...
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11-19-2020, 04:01 AM | #20 | |
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