Posted on 12/12/2014 3:44:39 PM PST by WhiskeyX
The human race is ready to begin harvesting the resources of space both for their use in space and to increase the wealth and prosperity of the entire world.
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Humans will expand as far as they can conceivably go.
One of the many simpler facts of life.
NO ,it will cause Global Warming in space
Gold will be rendered valueless when my molecular converter is released. Heh heh.
Transportation would be cheap for getting resources back to earth—really.
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The scarcity of resources is artificial. There’s plenty of earth, minerals and water.
So that new Chevy Tahoe would run about $500,000,056,000.00..............Without cash for klunkers incentives.
Ecofascists will never let us mine in space.
Probably where that "Give em an inch and they'll take a mile" remark came from.
: )
I think the watermelon control freaks would roast rather nicely under some booster rockets.
If you can control them, you own the world.
“Transportation would be cheap for getting resources back to earth—really.”
One Space Shuttle load of Lunar mined Helium 3 may someday be able to fuel a Helium 3 nuclear reactor capable of supplying all of the electrical power needs of the entire United States for one year. If so, the Helium 3 would be valued at more than $1 Billion per ton.
Rare goods that can only be manufactured under the zero gravity conditions of space may be valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars per Space Shuttle load. Examples of such products vary from perfectly shaped ball bearings with extraordinary properties of longevity and efficiency to pharmaceuticals to fabrication materials that are extraordinarily lightweight yet super-strong to be used in artificial limbs, exo-skeletons for medical and military applications, armor, industrial shielding, military and civil aircraft fabrication material, and much much more.
All of the products manufactured in space require plant facilities and supplies which will be more and more affordable only after the costs for the energy to lift them out of the Earth’s gravity well have been eliminated by sourcing them from asteroids and the Moon/Luna instead.
This approach is already coming into use by Planetary Resources, who has already launched mission that have developed a means to robotically refuel communications satellites in Earth orbit at far less cost than it would be to replace those satellites because they ran out of fuel for their reaction thrusters used to maintain their orbital positioning. In the future, the fuel for such satellite refueling can come from an asteroid or comet at far less cost than lifting the fuel into orbit from the Earth’s surface.
Thank you. Very interesting.
“The scarcity of resources is artificial. There’s plenty of earth, minerals and water.”
Scarcity is not the main reason for mining the asteroids and the Moon/Luna. The cost of transporting those resources from the surface of the Earth and into space where they need to be used is cost prohibitive versus developing the infrastructure for mining those resources and transporting them to the locations in space where they are needed for industrial applications and other purposes which can be located only in space.
You are wrong, because that is not what they are attempting to do. it is a false argument.
Compare the cost of iron ore and water mined or collected on the Earth and transported to the Earth’s Lagrangian point in space to the cost for the same goods obtained from an Earth asteroid or the Moon and transported to the same Earth Lagrangian point. The asteroid sourced material is far less costly per kilogram.
It is quite possible for there to be an asteroid that is composed of more gold than all of the gold that has ever been mined on the Earth in human history. Gold is produced in the core of a supergiant star as it explodes in a supernova or hypernova, spreading the gold vapors into a nebular cloud in space. When gravity and other forces cause the cloud to condense again to form another star, planets, and asteroids, there is an opportunity for the gold to become concentrated into those bodies in space, including the asteroids. Imagine what the discovery of a gold asteroid within reach of a space mining company on the Earth could do to the Earth’s gold market. The same is true of platinum.
You're right. I read that all the Earth's gold found so far is smaller than an olympic sized swimming pool, or something to that effect. I imagine there is much gold on the Moon, as it probably is made of many of the same minerals as the Earth. Asteroid hits on the Moon may have scattered gold around the surface.
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