About the near Earth objects
:thing is, if it has enough water, it could be very attractive for development of its resources.
The trip to Ceres is very far. On the other hand, Near Earth objects are going to be easier to access, but you may not be able to stay very long. Because if you do , you going to be stuck there because you can't get back to Earth easily if you stay very long at all.
Either way , it seems you're going to spend a lot of time at an asteroid in order to mine it, or to do anything besides a short mission.
The next problem is how do you get situated on an asteroid so that you can work there effectively.
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Update:
A long essay on Ceres in available on Daily Kos. For those of you who are Republican and Conservative, you may not want to go on that site. If you just stick to the science part of this essay, you needn't be offended.
Comet Tempel 1 is a bit far out there too. Anyway, the idea of finding water in such vast quantities in space is tantalizing. If there are any extinct comets like this one that is more readily accessible to us, it could be worthwhile to do it. If is a very big word, though.
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