Posted on 12/12/2014 3:44:39 PM PST by WhiskeyX
In EVE Online, I frequently fly a Covetor class asteroid ice mining barge. Name: SSi Oprah Winfrey.
lol
My rock mining barge is named the SSm Rachael Jeantel
rofl
gobbles up that rock, huh
Soon some will attempt the reverse.
Good news, it works just as is, very malleable, won't foul the barrel.
Won't cause you grief if your environmental and such.
Sitting with my feet next to a nice fire, postin'
“gobbles up that rock, huh”
As Rachael might put it: “wid a quickness...”
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And yet that whole equation would be upended by a revolutionary leap in the technology we use to get from point A to point B.
“Transportation would be cheap for getting resources back to earth—really.
;-)”
Just found this article. Just thought you should know the dropping something out of orbit IS very cheep. You just have to slow it enough that atmosphere does the rest of the breaking, then a nice parachute at the end. It is getting stuff up there that is pricy.
Can you name a single “rare good” that is currently only able to be manufactured in space?
Question:
“Can you name a single “rare good” that is currently only able to be manufactured in space?”
Answer:
NASA has conducted numerous experiments in the microgravity of low-Earth orbit over the last thirty years with more than a few surprising results. Among those experiments, one discovery that potentially has the greatest good for the common man back down on Earth is that resulting from the production of insulin in microgravity.
Insulin, used to help diabetics regulate their blood sugar, has a crystalline structure. Insulin produced on Earth has an irregular structure and is prone to, on a microscopic level, folding and breaking under its own molecular weight. As such, large extended crystals were difficult (if not impossible) to produce on Earth, we had never been able to observe large and gravity-uninhibited crystals before. The insulin produced aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1994 proved remarkable in several ways, including the clarity and size of the crystalline structure (which allowed scientists on Earth to study it with a clarity unavailable with terrestrial samples) as well as potency. The larger and more cleanly organized insulin crystals provided by the experiment proved to be incredibly effective compared to regular insulin samples; if the insulin could be mass produced on Earth with a matching structure, diabetics dosing down multiple times a day with insulin could instead dose down every few days.
http://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/what-medicine-is-radically-more-effective-when-produced-in-zero-gravity/
When the shtf, guns and ammo will by lying all over the streets.
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