I can't imagine. It's not like anyone hates most or all human life enough to try to steer it into a collision rather than an orbit. Dr. Evil is fiction. And there's no real person that full of petty malice. Is there?
Posted on 05/25/2017 10:52:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
there goes the value of my gold and silver
Probably have some pretty toasty hot spots in it too radiation wise.
We could build a Death Star!
Just remember, cover the exhaust port above the main port this time.
...in the future, gold is as common as sand...
What if that becomes true!?
“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...................”
There was a story about this several months ago that stated the asteroid has enough precious metals that it would render those materials essentially worthless. There may also be enough radioactive contamination of those metals that the cost of decontaminating them would be cost prohibitive.
Wow, that graphic BLOWS ME AWAY!
I’ve always said that the info is out there, it is just getting it in the right format.
Such a deal...
“Wait... Isn’t RT.com a Russian news source? Just sayin’.”
Their link:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-moves-up-launch-of-psyche-mission-to-a-metal-asteroid
Good one...
LOL
That metallic rock is chump change. I want the carbon core of a white dwarf star. It’s a giant diamond.
Why tow it into orbit? Why not bring it down on, say, iran, and we can just mine it from there.
Or San Francisco...
Call me suspicious, but I suspect that trying to sell that much iron and nickel might drive the price of iron and nickel down a tad....I mean if there is anything to that whole “supply and demand” thing....
“...in the future, gold is as common as sand...”
There was a twilight zone episode where some crooks stole a large amount of gold and then put themselves in suspended animation to wait until the heat was off. By the time they awakened a process had been develeped to synthesize gold and it was worthless.
They’re not just out there floating like balloons. They’re traveling at 50,000 mph, and then there’s that law of motion stuff.
I can't imagine. It's not like anyone hates most or all human life enough to try to steer it into a collision rather than an orbit. Dr. Evil is fiction. And there's no real person that full of petty malice. Is there?
The importance of this story is that it blows out of the water the narrative that we are limited to resources on Earth, and are therefore running out.
That narrative depends on the assumption that we never go outside of Earth to obtain the massive amount of resources that exist in space.
“anything”??? A touch of exaggeration I think....
Might play hell with the tides and faults...............
Moving it and landing it would probably consume more in energy costs than could be recouped by selling the material - even if it were solid gold.
It does bring up some interesting possibilities though, such as using it as a materials store and construction base to launch missions farther out into the cosmos. Especially if it has high-grade uranium ore that could serve as a localized energy source.
There are some movers and shakers who think we’re on the cusp of a serious space boom. Not sure I buy it.
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