There's always the possibility of continuous evacuation to allow for small amounts of leakage - pumping plants every few hundred km, for example. Can it be -that- much more difficult than maintaining the huge, long-distance oil pipelines in Alaska etc?
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There's always the possibility of continuous evacuation to allow for small amounts of leakage - pumping plants every few hundred km, for example. Can it be -that- much more difficult than maintaining the huge, long-distance oil pipelines in Alaska etc?
Yep, but it's thin and wide... meteorites hit because they're big balls of rock, the heat of atmospheric friction would burn this thing up in seconds.