Re: Let's mine asteroids — for science and profit
It was a long way from the first horse powered coal mine to today´s scientific mining. Trains where invented on the way and new scientific theories developed. This adventure could be critically...
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What about the energetic cost?http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the...
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Being a non-scientist and a lay person, am I foolish to ask; " would't bringing tons of metals like platinum to earth (assuming it will ever happen) change the mass of the earth, its rotational-speeds,...
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Georgi Marinov, Murphy suggests 5 kilometers/second to retrieve an asteroid. There are many asteroids much closer in terms of delta V. Especially if 3 body mechanics is employed. There are numerous...
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The author suggests" precious metals such as gold and platinum sell for around US$50,000 per kilogram. A smallish asteroid, about 200 metres across and rich in platinum, could be worth $30...
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Good idea. And once that is done capitalists could get started building a whole new planet; by then their unbridled greed would have succeeded in destroying this one.
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Russell Seitz said "A smallish asteroid, about 200 metres across ... However, such an object would weigh some 3 to 8 billion tonnes"A ball having a 200 meter diameter would have volume of about 4.2...
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Actually, NASA's mission — exploring the cosmos — is just fine. We need ambitious, inspiring, overarching goals like this, to keep us from becoming Nietzschean "Last Men" who...
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For humanity as a whole it is ridiculous to minde asteroids for gold. Gold has not much practical use, but is only valuable as it is used as a currency, i.e. valuable exactly because of its relative...
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My research independently verifies much of what is written here. However, this is a very controversial topic and as such it is best to be conservative: if it costs more to mine the asteroid than the...
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I have a few simple questions which I guess a lot of people would likely ask:For instance, what is the break-down in the meteorite database: are they all C-chondrites? If so, the Pt levels would...
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