Posted on 01/16/2017 4:24:39 PM PST by COBOL2Java
It is made up of various precious metals such as iron, nickel and gold.
Experts believe the iron alone in the rock would be worth $10,000 quadrillion – enough to cause the world’s economy, worth $73.7 trillion, to promptly collapse altogether.
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Why would we bring it back here? Much more useful up there building more ships and habitats...
Multi Pass!!!
That rock is known as aunt Beatrice tanner, I named it after her in august of 1988..
Yes, but someone will sell deeds to mine it!
Earth First! (We’ll mine the other planets later)
Future site of Motel 6?
While obviously we cannot get at it now, that seems useful in the future assuming we have some energy breakthrough. 200 km of metal OUTSIDE of the gravity well.
But yeah. kind of fake news today.
But no moon. I’ve noted before that my dad averred that he had insisted in the 1930’s that men would go to the moon in his lifetime. And that they did, just some 35 years later. Now it’s coming on twice that time since, without any increment whatsoever in manned exploration of space, starting with a return to the moon, which is an obvious base camp for further missions.
Now everybody’s marveling at the landing of the Space-X booster on that barge. Ok, cool. But it ain’t the moon, or anything beyond that. We’re left with LEO and everybody is talking smack. Well, I’m calling BS on that.
... and “Shawyer’s Em Drive” ? that’s pure fantasy. That’s where we are now, fantasy as reality.
My honest opinion is that Apollo will fade into myth, even as more and more fantastical ideas become current, of course with no hope of fruition.
Then again let’s not! Settle for delivery of refined ore in a convenient orbit?
Gold? Or silver?
Not anytime soon.
The value is not having to ship construction material into orbit in the first place.
Chelyabinsk!
Spectroscopic analyses of the surface gives a clue.
Snag a small body rich in platinum group metals.
Hoffman's fail to find gold on Asteroid comprised of 80℅ Gold.
then there’s the added cost of getting that much metal up into space.
One little thing. It isn't in orbit around the earth it's in the steroid belt; for you space kadets that's between Mars and Jupiter
I’m curious just how much do you think it would cost per pound (using pound as a measure of mass which really isn’t correct) to bring back a thousand pounds or so of material from the asteroid belt? And how did you arrive at your figure? Hint you could use the Apollo program as an example
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