Posted on 05/25/2017 10:52:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
And on the payment plan, you only have to pay 30,000 quadrillion (30 quintillion) to be the proud owner!
Who are we going to sell it to? Will we sell on credit, or cash only?
Space mining and prospecting might be what’s needed to get space exploration to the next level!
If this asteroid had gold or silver on it then people would right now be on the way to mine it!
The law of supply and demand applies. If you flood the market with a billion tons of high quality ore, the price will go down to near nothing.
Interesting from a technical standpoint. From an economic angle, it is obviously not “worth” anything like the amount cited, since there simply is no market for so much iron and nickel. It is “worth” only what buyers would be willing to pay, if indeed it could somehow be mined for earthly purposes.
If this is, as one theory goes, the ‘solidified core’ of some long gone planet, then it will have gold, silver, uranium, lead and all the heaviest metals as a part of its makeup, not just iron and nickel...................
Give Mother Earth a big expensive ring, sure.
Tow an iron asteroid over here and put it in orbit.
What could go wrong?
I am sitting here racking my brain and I honestly can’t think of one potential issue with going out and steering a 149 mile wide asteroid toward earth. Sounds like a great idea. I’m in.
"But wait, there's more! If you call within the next ten minutes, we'll throw in a second asteroid free! Just pay shipping and handling."
It’d be interesting if it turned out to be part of the core of Theia.
Wait... Isn’t RT.com a Russian news source? Just sayin’.
Not to mention what could possibly go wrong? Remember those Sky Lab commercials with the guy who strapped mattresses to everything and put helmets and pillows strapped to his dogs?
...and if there’s not $10,000 quadrillion or wealth in existence, then it’s pointless to assign such a value without all the qualifiers that are being mentioned.
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the crew hijacks a gold shipment, puts themselves into suspended animation for 100 years, then wakes up only to find that, in the future, gold is as common as sand.
Not to mention what could possibly go wrong? Remember those Sky Lab commercials with the guy who strapped mattresses to everything and put helmets and pillows strapped to his dogs?
One mistake with setting the orbit around the earth and there will be a YEWG bang into the Earth.
Any thing can be done, you just have to have the will.
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