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To: Empireoftheatom48

Getting down from Earth orbit is tough because you must shed all that orbital velocity. If you started getting to Earth not from orbit, but from a freefall state, you don’t need to go from 7 miles per second to zero, at which point you can simply fall, like Baumgartner did.

So once you get your chunk of metal, you can fashion a simple wing structure out of slag and fly that down like a glider, you can crash it because it’s just asteroid slag with a core of heavy metal. If it buries itself 10 meters deep at your landing site, no problem, it’s a lump of platinum or palladium or gold.


14 posted on 05/28/2015 7:40:40 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow

Where are you going to do this fashioning, I think this is more probilmatical than you think!


22 posted on 05/28/2015 7:54:55 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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