Posted on Nov 8, 2015
Did you know that At $27 Billion, Mining in Space Could Cost Less Than a Gas Plant?
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Did you know that At $27 Billion, Mining in Space Could Cost Less Than a Gas Plant?
RP Community what do you think about mining raw materials from the moon or an asteroid- too many science fiction movies?
NASA is cautious but believes investors are out there
Business students cost moon mining mission at $9 billion
Getting a mine up and running on the moon or an asteroid would cost less than building the biggest gas terminals on Earth, according to research presented to a forum of company executives and NASA scientists.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-05/at-27-billion-mining-in-space-could-cost-less-than-a-gas-plant
RP Community what do you think about mining raw materials from the moon or an asteroid- too many science fiction movies?
NASA is cautious but believes investors are out there
Business students cost moon mining mission at $9 billion
Getting a mine up and running on the moon or an asteroid would cost less than building the biggest gas terminals on Earth, according to research presented to a forum of company executives and NASA scientists.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-05/at-27-billion-mining-in-space-could-cost-less-than-a-gas-plant
Energy
NASA
Mining and Metals
Posted 9 y ago
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs There are asteroids out there made of enough materials who's net economic worth is more than the entire economic output of the human race to date. Space mining will be a no-brainer once the dollar signs start flashing.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs while mining in space could cost less than a gas plant the pipeline to transport it to another station or back to earth would be astronomical :-)
It would be comical for somebody to advance an idea that a physical pipeline from the moon to earth to push or pull the material. Jules Verne would have had fun with that concept :-)
It would be comical for somebody to advance an idea that a physical pipeline from the moon to earth to push or pull the material. Jules Verne would have had fun with that concept :-)
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SN Greg Wright
LTC Stephen F. I disagree, Colonel. All you have to do is slingshot it from wherever, to orbit, where it can be picked up or de-orbited. A simple rail gun would do the trick.
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LTC Stephen F.
SN Greg Wright - ask any meteorite how much fun it is to pierce the earth's atmosphere :-) The few that survive have certainly achieved a mass loss goal which any dieter would be envious of :-)
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SN Greg Wright
LTC Stephen F. - You're right, of course. However, we de-orbit stuff all the time, dealing with that problem (vehicles, etc). The calcs are relatively trivial these days, to minimize the problem you're addressing. (Which admittedly is very real). On the other hand, as the article says, it might be more beneficial to leave it up there and use it there.
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Yeah! Let's go to the moon and play pollute it like we have here on earth. No problem in that. Let's pollute the moon, Mars, Jupiter, and wherever else we can get to. I think we've polluted the atmosphere and our planet enough. IMHO
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SN Greg Wright
SGT (Join to see) Those places will all kill you, so I'm thinking it'll be incumbent upon future settlers to be very, very careful in how they're doing their environment lol.
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SN Greg Wright, It's almost that way on planet earth right now. Depends on where you live or stationed.
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