hector wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:15 am
There's a book about Asteroid Mining called Delta V that is outstanding.
Like Tertius pointed out, lots of the mining would be on asteroids when they're near us.
Beyond the market value of anything mined, the mined materials are more valuable because they're already in space, so you can use the materials to build space infrastructure, and forgo the incredibly high cost of getting stuff to space from earth.
This is more of the flawed thinking.
A lot you space-dreamers have never done any work in real life in industry or construction.
Good luck with refining spacerockmetal in space ... a space mill? Awesome?
Takes a lot of energy, and "stuff", and things.
Better keep your day jobs.....
I'd laugh my ass off if anyone says something about bringing (guiding) a metally asteroid (aka planet killer) into earth orbit to make it easily mine-able.
What could go wrong?
I'm so rooting for the virus (now), it can't mutate fast enough.
#teamlickingdoorknobs.
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also, I can't help but to think also ....
If we do somehow graduate to the point of have the tech and knowhow to do something like capture an asteroid, mine it, process it space, and build stuff is space ....
....by the time we achieve THAT^ level of knowledge, skill, tech, etc.
the problem of needing a bunch of cheap metal from space would be averted already because said advancement would easily handle whatever the problem was down here by then.