Artist's Concept of Psyche Spacecraft with Five-Panel Array
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin1 posted on
05/25/2017 5:08:44 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
At first I thought it said “Psych Mission to a Mental Asteroid”
2 posted on
05/25/2017 5:12:20 PM PDT by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: BenLurkin
So they’ll start mining asteroids only 60 years after I die, not 100?
3 posted on
05/25/2017 5:25:24 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: BenLurkin
The Psyche spacecraft is being built by Space Systems Loral (SSL), Palo Alto, California. Worthy mission? Yes.
Is that the outfit responsible for ALL of China's nukes? Yes.
They couldn't get the ICBM's off the pad and Loral simply HANDED the tech right over.
5 posted on
05/25/2017 7:01:02 PM PDT by
gaijin
To: BenLurkin
There is a logistics problem in getting the metal to market that won’t be solved anytime soon unless a breakthrough in technology happens. Nothing gets people thinking out of the box quite like a chance to cash in on quadrillions of dollars, though.
8 posted on
05/25/2017 7:18:05 PM PDT by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: BenLurkin
"...which gets us there about twice as fast..." has no meaning.
10 posted on
05/26/2017 8:51:35 AM PDT by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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