We should capture it.........................
To: Red Badger
2 posted on
07/17/2015 2:00:23 PM PDT by
ponygirl
(An Appeal to Heaven.)
To: Red Badger
Asteroid worth £3 TRILLION ($5.4 million) in precious metals I hate to be a nit-picker but does anyone have any idea what 100 million tons of new acquired platinum reserves would do to the PRICE of platinum? Anyone, anyone? Would the combined value of the asteroid still be $5.4 million? Bueller?
5 posted on
07/17/2015 2:06:48 PM PDT by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: Red Badger
'What makes this unusual is the large amount of platinum believed to be lurking in the body of this space visitor. That word BELIEVED.... that's an important part of this statement. All it takes is one time for some company to spend 500 million dollars capturing one of these things and getting $2,700 dollars worth of precious metals ..... to make these dreams seem less inviting.
6 posted on
07/17/2015 2:08:30 PM PDT by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: Red Badger
What's the price if you do dynamic analysis? If we had the ability to capture it, then platinum would be far easier to get and the price would drop. (see also: oil glut)
7 posted on
07/17/2015 2:08:51 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
To: Red Badger
If there was suddenly 100 million tons of platinum wouldn’t its price go down to to the level of steel or aluminum? It certainly wouldn’t be precious if it was in abundance.
9 posted on
07/17/2015 2:09:41 PM PDT by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: Red Badger
I’m selling it on eBay for the bargain price of only $200 million. Limit one per customer.
To: Red Badger
Wasn't the "Nostromo" in the movie "Alien" an astroid mining ship?
12 posted on
07/17/2015 2:10:14 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: Red Badger
Its only worth $3 Trillion because we can’t get it.
If we COULD, then it would flood the market!
19 posted on
07/17/2015 2:15:14 PM PDT by
PGR88
To: Red Badger
Wouldn’t the change in mass of our planet by bringing in metals from space cause unintended consequences?
21 posted on
07/17/2015 2:23:41 PM PDT by
Teflonic
To: Red Badger
Or hop onto it with mining equipment and come back with the ore next time the asteroid makes a close approach to Earth.
23 posted on
07/17/2015 2:27:26 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
Sure, strap a rocket motor to it and direct it to land right in the middle of....where?
24 posted on
07/17/2015 2:27:42 PM PDT by
lurk
To: Red Badger
Tractor beam.
No problem.
5.56mm
25 posted on
07/17/2015 2:28:04 PM PDT by
M Kehoe
To: Red Badger
How much to mine it? How much effect on supply would that cause? what effect on likely price as a consequence of the increased supply?
Intelligent questions that make the headline look ridiculous.
30 posted on
07/17/2015 2:34:01 PM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
To: Red Badger
I think Mark Cuban (?) was trying to put something together to try to capture it
35 posted on
07/17/2015 2:41:58 PM PDT by
MattinNJ
(It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
To: Red Badger
Supply and demand says the value won’t be what they think it is.
36 posted on
07/17/2015 2:42:52 PM PDT by
Raycpa
To: Red Badger
Catch it catch it catch it catch it catch it...
38 posted on
07/17/2015 2:51:13 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Red Badger
If they captured it, mined the platinum thus creating a surplus amount of platinum on Earth....wouldn’t the price of platinum plunge to near zero thus making the whole episode worthless????
49 posted on
07/17/2015 5:11:14 PM PDT by
terycarl
(, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
To: Red Badger
“Asteroid 2011 UW-158 will pass within 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km) from Earth on Sunday - 30 times closer than our nearest planet.”
And about 6 times the distance between the Earth and Moon.
50 posted on
07/17/2015 6:03:46 PM PDT by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Red Badger
Platinum spark plug cores? No, I have a platinum pickup with platinum wheels.
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