Cool three-book series that delves into asteroid mining.
Posted on 12/06/2017 5:44:13 AM PST by BenLurkin
FULL HEADLINE: The $10,000 quadrillion asteroid: Experts reveal how iron, nickel and gold makes 16-Psyche so valuable as NASA prepares to visit it in 2026
Three times further away from the sun than the Earth lies an enormous lump of metal.
Around 252km in diameter, the metallic 'M-class' asteroid 16 Psyche is the target of NASA's next mission to the belt of giant rocks that encircles the inner solar system.
And the space agency now plans to visit it much sooner than originally planned.
Not only has the launch has been brought forward one year to the summer of 2022, but NASA's scientists have also found a way to get to Psyche (pronounced SYKe-ee) much faster by taking a more efficient trajectory.
The new route means the Psyche spacecraft won't have to swing around the Earth to build up speed and won't pass as close to the sun, so it needs less heat protection. It is now due to arrive in 2026, four years earlier than the original timeline.
The main aim of the journey to Psyshe is to gather more information about our own solar system.
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Hope there is a lot of chromium, titanium, moly and copper too! With all those metals, it would be able to make a vast array of alloys - make a great starship-yard.
16 Psyche is the remnants of the core of the once inhabited planet between Mars and Jupiter. This planet was destroyed by invading aliens after receiving peaceful radio transmissions that revealed its location to the aliens.
First of all, it says a lot about America that they have to explain how to pronounce psyche.
Second, getting all that gold would make gold worthless.
First of all, it says a lot about America that they have to explain how to pronounce psyche.
Second, getting all that gold would make gold worthless.
Good!
Not worthless, just worth less.
Cool three-book series that delves into asteroid mining.
So what is wrong with affordable gold being widely used?
Heh
Well, there goes the gold standard, down the drain.
Time for bitcoin I guess (ducks).
Ignorant people claim we are running out of resources.
There is a whole solar system of them waiting to be picked up and used.
Is it so hard to make the step from mining the rock, to using the material mined, right there, to build stuff, right there?
Yah know, when you have a planet's worth of rocks and minerals, and a star for power, perhaps slap together an O'Neil colony or 20?
But, they are Brits and Leftists. The Stupids. Perhaps we should just leave them behind, to rot in their own squalor...
LOL. I see some one else read “Dark Forrest”! Good read.
Only if it is banned from importing it to the Earth, and is only used in space manufacturing only.
Just saying...
Hoffman from Gold Rush will probably try to go to it and mine the Gold.
“This planet was destroyed by invading aliens after receiving peaceful radio transmissions that revealed its location to the aliens.”
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The Dark Forest Theory.
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