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Been watching The Expanse lately and it seems like it'd be very expensive to mine asteroids while in space. Could it be cost effective/efficient and safe to just send smaller asteroids to earth using rockets and letting them crash in the ocean and mining them in the comfort of home?

by /u/DrBucket in /r/askscience

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