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To: Sparticus

It’s an iron asteroid, not a steel one. How would it hurt the steel industry if its main raw material got cheaper? But wait, is launching big rockets to get iron from space really cheaper than mining iron on earth? Nope! As Isaac Arthur points out, we will mine asteroids for construction projects off-earth, not to send the mined materials down to earth (unless we’re talking about rare materials, which iron and nickel are NOT).


12 posted on 08/31/2019 10:24:02 AM PDT by samtheman (The drive-by media is the true boss of the democommie party.)
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To: samtheman
I like Isaac Arthur. He talked about in one of his video's that if we sacrificed 16 psyche we could use the materials to make an Orbital ring. The orbital ring would be like a super highway to space that anyone could use. Which we have the technology today but the costs would be to high today.

He explains Orbital ring here. He talked about the sacrifice of 16 psyche some place else i don't remember
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LMbI6sk-62E/

34 posted on 08/31/2019 11:59:43 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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