Can we contain anti-matter?

[shiney]

I wonder if harvesting asteroids from the belt would make any impact.

Of course first, we'd have to be able to get a harvester to the asteroid belt.

Of course first, we'd have to have a harvester.

Of course first, we'd have to have the technology to build a harvester.

Of course first, we'd have to fund research to build a harvester.

Of course first, we'd have to quit dicking about with oil pipeline arguments and reallocate our resources to something more important.

Of course first, we'd have to quit being fucking retarded about every other thing in the world.

I would love to see what humanity could accomplish if we were free of the shackles of self-interested businessmen.

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I have always wondered about the feasibility of a space elevator / space cable. So it woudl essentially be anchored to a space station/etc? Would it be a case of the anchor has to have more mass than the cable, to prevent it from simply falling to the earth? I also find myself wondering how we would prevent the space-anchor from orbiting too fast and wrenching the cable away or whatever. It's all very fascinating...