Posted on 04/20/2018 10:18:32 AM PDT by Voption
Updates on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, diamonds inside a planet, the Environmental Defense Fund is up to no good (again), and cleaning up Caves...
...dreamed Liz Taylor...
I’d settle for a diamond as big as the Ritz.
Watched “Cleopatra” again not too long ago.
She makes sawed-off runt sexy. Even more so that Gillian Anderson.
NASA planning mission to an asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion
'Trillion-Dollar Asteroid' Zooms by Earth as Scientists Watch (Video)
Love me some Gillian Anderson!
When chunks of crystallized carbon are more common that beach sand, what will they be worth?
“When chunks of crystallized carbon are more common that beach sand, what will they be worth?”
The same as a bucket full of sand.
Nail on the head, sir!
What a lot of people who talk about getting “valuable” stuff from Space totally overlook, or just don’t address,(for whatever reasons) are the supply demand cost substitution elasticity, (etc., etc.) effects/equations.
We are just not going to mine & refine Gold (for example) on Mars, and ship it back to the Earth.
“Resources” are going to have to present themselves to us in the Realm in which they are required to keep us alive, and we will have to learn new ways to extract what we need, in situ.
(The economy of the Earth, for all practical purposes, is a closed system.)
Oxygen and Water, for example, are far more ‘valuable’ in Space, than is a whole asteroid made up of Platinum.
The Moon for example, has water-ice, and from H2O you can make hydrogen and oxygen, ‘precious metals’ are also present, but they can’t be readily, easily, and extracted less costly than on Earth, for immediate us in place.
Well the DeBeers folks will never let us go to Mars now.
Easy now, big fella.
Gillian Anderson got hotter with age. Liz didn’t.
I logged in, just to say...excellent cultural reference!
“Stick with me, Verna, and you’ll be wearin’ buffalo chips as big as diamonds...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7cXvDWMiDo
Thanks!
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