Posted on 05/25/2017 10:52:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Platinum group metals, or perhaps water will be most valuable. Some web comments recently discussed Saudi Arabia seeking a move into water as the new oil of space development.
https://www.tsfa.co/single-post/2017/05/19/Mining-Space-The-Final-Frontier
Why would this object be "...truly unique..."?? Nickel-iron meteorites are ubiquitous. This one happens to be somewhat large, but "unique"........?? Don't think so.
The Rip Van Winkle caper....twilight zone...good ideas...great writing..
I remember that Twilight Zone episode! Great episode (then again, they all were).
Is $10 quintillion not a thing? Or, why not $10,000,000 trillion? What am I missing here?
As meteorites go, on the open market, nickel-iron ones are worth a lot more that the rocky ones.
The best part is the members kill each other as the episode progresses till there’s just one man left, who dies with all the gold. Only for a man from the future to not how he had so much worthless metal.
Psyche, the core of a former planet? wow.
This could be a hugh discovery..
Your play on HUGE (YEWG) had me trying to figure out what acronym it was. (NEO- near Earth object), (PEE- planetary extinction event), etc.
A failed planet. They think it may be the planet that was where the asteroid belt is now, but was destroyed by some cataclysmic collision way early in the solar system’s beginning.......................
If is the way President Trump says huge, which is big time huge.
Yeah! What could go wrong?
Seems simple enough.
Send an unmanned probe.
Drill into surface.
Attach small steering rockets.
Start engines...............
Lots of good stuff in Afghanistan’s ground. It’s good ground but seems cursed. I haven’t studied their history to find out why God is so mad at them.
Or one really, really big nickel.
[ Yeah! What could go wrong? ]
Our asteroid engineer Mohammed Mohammed from our NASA Muslim outreach program will be handling the orbit dynamics.....
Yeah, won’t that just be swell....
You think a plane crashing into a building was bad, try a several kilometer asteroid crashing into eastern seaboard...
A big SHINEY nickel..................
Maybe we shouldn’t focus on bringing it back here, but using it to help us get farther out there.
Could be very bad for the economy they mean. Depends on the rate of introduction into the market but a massive glut of material like that could crash the market making iron and nickle basically worthless.
Yes, it would make building spaceships a lot easier...................
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