Holy crap! How did you get a future recording of Elon Musk?
Yeah that’s not how it would go down. A mining company can’t really threaten the planet on a time scale short enough for it to be an immediate threat. Also a company in space is super duper fragile
Day 2 : genuine accident causes asteroid to hit Earth. Day 3 : US Space Force embarks to "install democracy" in the entire Solar System.
Mars Eturnum.
This makes me think of Enron Muskrat's Megalomania
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Robery Heinlein. Throwing rocks is a valid method of coercion, but only if you are self‐sufficient.
Considering how conveniently placed the moon is, and that it's surface has been bombarded by asteroids for countless eons, then if minning tiny far away rocks makes sense then mining the moon makes more sense. So by the time asteroid miners can even consider being an independent colony, either we would have enough moon mining related infrastructure around earth that these threats would be pointless... Or the moon colonies would beat the asteroid colonies to the punch 10 times over.
Sounds like several of the Gundam plots
Dont they have to get oxygen from earth? Or some other resource?
You did the wrong accent attempt. The guy demanding asteroid mining that endangers the earth wouldn't be from the American South. He would be from Israel.
You watched and read too much Expanse.
@feynthefallen