If you find an asteroid that has heavy and valuable minerals, will you be able to blast it and use tractor beams, or are you going to need some kind of drilling equipment to mine?asked by Unchained Boar 1991

You could, but you'll probably lose a lot of the content if you just blow it up. That's why we have things like mining lasers. Surgical precision.

Published on this date.4 Oct 2013