Asteroid catcher for rockets

[mrvn]

Launching rockets costs a lot of resources for no gain other than those science packs.

Why not send a rocket up to bring back a asteroid? Build a asteroid capture module, insert it in the rocket and launch it. You can then select a target where the asteroid should be landed (read crashed) and after a while it would land (read crash) there.

This would have 2 effects:

1) BOOM

Crashing a asteroid is quite destructive so you get a big explosion with lots of damage. It's fun to drop asteroids on alien nests.

2) Resources

Asteroids contain resources. Could be water, stone, copper, iron. coal. After the BOOM some random resource should be added where the asteroid crashed.

So one could use asteroids to replenish resources. Just don't target anywhere to close to existing structures.

[Combinator]

Let me think about it and I think I could give it a try for my next mod.
I failed, but here is my attempt: https://github.com/IanDuncanT/AstroidCatcher