Re: Asteroid mining question

Mike Williams wrote:
> Wasn't it Jack Tingle who wrote:
> 
>> I was never sure where that came from. Relatively easy on a 
>> per-pound-of -asteroid basis, and relatively easy period are not the 
>> same thing. We can currently handle things around the earth on the 
>> order (optimistically) of a hundred tons. (Skylab was 77 tons. Yes, I 
>> know ... ISS is bigger ... no more Saturn V's ... shuttle is almost 
>> shot ... make it in pieces ... shuttle derived big boosters ... 
>> yadayadayda ... Bugger that. A hundred tons.)
> 
> But getting a hundred tons into low Earth orbit is a completely 
> different prospect to getting a hundred tons from the asteroid belt into

> Earth orbit.
> 

OK, what's your estimated tonnage limit.

Regards,
Jack Tingle