A private company is aiming to heave a microwave oven-size spacecraft toward an asteroid later this week, its goal to kick off a future where precious metals are mined around the solar system.
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We’re wrecking the planet, but mining asteroids is one way that’s better, like developing cost-effective graphene batteries, or long-term: clean fusion power. Changing consumption culture is the best way, but difficult. I feel that safe, alternative energy may be the only thing that might save us.
I wonder if they realize that making some of these minerals available through this extremely expensive harvesting process will lower their market value.
Doing to the solar system what we've done to earth. Is there a market in which I can take out short positions on Earth not getting hit by at least one outtacontrol bigass rock once they start blasting out there?
The space mining which would be truly valuable is mining helium-3 from the gas giants. This could allow for endless clean nuclear fusion to solve many of our problems here at home, while also opening up high speed space travel.
Doesn't make economic sense.
Energy inputs make mining, not imposable, just improbable. Theres enormous engineering hurtles just try and make a Moon base feasible with multibillion$ resupply missions. Better off trying come up with plan to mine landfills for all materials we've thrown away
Please, would someone put all that brain trust into finding ways to recycling & reusing all the precious stuff you can extract out of used computing devices!! ( and then scale it to make it practical and accessible to all! )
Right! A guy in the airport years back was wishing for the day when phone charge cords were as common as outlets. Shocked at the idea that perhaps wires were not necessary at all.
Agreed. A way to get to that result through governance is to ensure that negative externalities are the obligation of the person building the thing. That’s really what deregulation is fighting against - trying to shift the burden of reckless pursuit on to those not involved in its design/profits.
Exactly! I figure I have 6 or 7 old cellphones in a drawer, and 3 or 4 old laptops. I can't be the only one. How much precious metals are in those old devices people have?
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It will fail due to the contamination committed by the yahoos who managed to put on a couple of gloves when they should have been wearing clean suits in a clean lab. What a waste of time and money.
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What could go wrong?
The more often it’s done the more likely it is that something will fail.
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OpenAI, bitcoin, and all the tech out there subsidized by morons.
These guys will be happy there kingdoms will be saved .
Watch the video !
Don't Look Up / Leonardo Dicaprio gets angry
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Dec 26, 2021
https://youtu.be/L99-t5OvSbk?si=BcxT7Ab0x2fRW6PT
But the NYT is either too stupid, too lazy, or just out right doesn't GAF that off planet mining is vaporware.
Energy inputs make mining, not imposable, just improbable. Theres enormous engineering hurtles just try and make a Moon base feasible with multibillion$ resupply missions. Better off trying come up with plan to mine landfills for all materials we've thrown away
People’s inefficient tendency to make further messes when trying to clean up an existing one reminds me of this study: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/04/brains-prefer-adding-sustainability/
This sentence bolsters my assumptions "we often deal with situations by reaching for an accessible solution, rather than the best one. "
https://www.materialfocus.org.uk/report-and-research/copper-crunch-report-future-challenges-of-copper-consumption/
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