[Robert A Cook PE]

Man, wouldn't you want a couple of million tons of pure Nickel-Iron-Chromium-Vanadium .... (and what else?????) in a gravity well right above earth?

[RightWhale]

Right. That is my point, and the purpose of my business license. Some see city-busting disaster, others see a goldmine. It all depends how you look at it and what you are prepared to do with it.

Robot mining of asteroids is the name of the game. There may be a few, a very few, people out there as well, since there will be no shortage of things to go wrong with the 'droids.

[cogitator]

Man, wouldn't you want a couple of million tons of pure Nickel-Iron-Chromium-Vanadium .... (and what else?????) in a gravity well right above earth?

You guys have just got to read parts of the "Lensman" series by E.E. "Doc" Smith...

All we need is an inertialess drive.