Posted on 05/13/2019 6:31:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Researchers from the US Smithsonian Institution and King’s College London argue for preserving seven-eighths of the solar system as official 'space wildernesses.'
This regulation would protect planets, moons and other bodies from unchecked mining and other types of industrial exploitation.
But its core aim would be to ensure that humankind's expansion into our star system is undertaken manageably to avoid a future where all the resources are gone.
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It will be challenging to decide which aspects of our star system should be protected from the space mining industry, the researchers wrote in their paper.
However, areas that might merit a 'space wilderness' status include Mars' Valles Marineris, the solar system's largest canyon in the , as well as Olympus Mons, the largest known shield volcano which is two-and-a-half times Mount Everest in height.
The assignment of protection will require much complicated debate.
'Do we want cities on the near side of the moon that light up at night? Would that be inspiring or horrifying?', Dr Elvis asked.
'And what about the rings of Saturn? They are beautiful, almost pure water ice.
'Is it OK to mine those so that in 100 years they are gone?
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Saw this in Central Idaho 20 years ago:
EARTH FIRST! Then we’ll log the rest of the planets later!
I know I won’t be alive to witness this, but all the right winger adventurous types will reach to the stars and all the lefties will stay here...a thousand years will pass and the right wingers will return and be thought of as gods.
I figured that once they had Scottie back, he came up with scrubbers for the warp drive. ;-)
Let the aliens vote.
Not the illegal mexican ones; the Martian ones.
I’m sure they will want universal health care, and free college.
The sheer arrogance is absolutely breathtaking…
I’m shipping all the tailings from Uranus to San Francisco.
= = =
Triple redundant, at the least.
*ping*
How many points do I get for that?
Lump of coal in space is “space wilderness” now.
Soon they will claim they channel extra terrestrial beings and their wishes
These people take themselves very, very seriously.
They are so much wiser than you or I.
Just ask them. They’ll tell you.
How about Don getting the guys working on the alien tech to pick up the pace so us normal people can go elsewhere.
Assuming that the alien stuff exists.
Whatever we decide to do ... the UK will have little to say about it.
Use up Saturn’s rings in 100 years? That’d be quite a mining operation. Saturn’s rings are estimated to be (1.54 ± 0.49)×10^19 kg.
Saturn’s rings are expected to “rain out” onto the planet anyway, in 100 million to 300 million years, IIRC.
;-)
They are too early to the party.
Would cost more to go and get it than what the stuff they want is worth.
Another solution looking for a problem.
Mining in space is even on the horizon.
Until the cost of lifting material in to orbit falls dramatically the economics of mining in space is just unrealistic.
I don’t care what the commodity is, it is just not possible to make a profit now mining in space.
Well, maybe if they found a nearby asteroid with a rich deposit of unobtanium it might be worth it.
These people are absolutely insane. Good God.
Thank you...I was taking this entirely too seriously (the detachment from reality of these people) and your post made me grin!
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