Image:Example.jpgThe challenge of asteroid mining can be summed-up by the analogy of trying to find the one ripe apple in an orchard the size of Australia in the middle of the night then trying to eat it right off the tree with no hands. Yet the potential bounty in materials among the asteroids in our solar system is vast –enough to sustain a civilization vastly larger than our own today. Figuring out how to best exploit this great resource will probably be the single-most dominant technological and logistical concern for the Asgard generations.