Bob Schroeck Wrote:Why is icemining the Rings taboo? I mean, it's not like serious damage to the rings could be accomplished even over centuries with 'Waved equipment, there's just too much there. And there is a fan-acceptable precedent -- "The Martian Way" by Asimov.If you start gathering ice for terraforming Mars and Venus, you need LOTS of it. And I think the Fen like the look of their ringed planet.
