The Goldilocks capturing mission was a joint mission by the Mars-7 Alliance and Helios Aerospace in 2003 to capture the asteroid Goldilocks for mining it in Martian orbit. Due to the exorbitant costs of the mining operations projected by Helios operative Aleida Rosales, the M-7 members at their...
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I have a sneaking suspicion this won't end well
at all - either for Mars or for Earth. Rule number 1 of the solar system: better leave asteroids alone - just ask the dinosaurs ROTFL.
My bet: between "25 minutes to Earth orbit" and "20 minutes to Mars orbit" asteroid redirect burn,
somebody will fuck up the said burn and send the asteroid on a collision course with a planet (the
communication hijacking box will do it !)
Next: since Mars orbit takes a 20 minutes burn and Earth, a 25 minutes one, one can guess that if the burn gets too long the asteroid will still head to Earth - but too fast to enter orbit. Uh-oh, this smells bad for Earth.
@TsrJoe mentionning The Expanse - asteroid bombardment, oops.