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How to mine an Asteroid
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2022-11-06 at 5:58 PM UTC
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2022-11-06 at 7:07 PM UTCI would say your best bet is to build a giant meshed "horn", with one end fully open, and then tapering down to about the size of the asteroid at the other end, with millions of pliable bristles sticking out of the interior near the end of the horn. So the asteroid enters the mouth of the "horn", its speed is reduced as it comes in contact with the meshed walls and then the bristles at the end, terminating its momentum entirely as it drops out the end.
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2022-11-06 at 7:42 PM UTC
Originally posted by slide22 the asteroid has to be no larger than say a school bus.
I did a rough calculation. A solid hold asteroid that size would be worth roughly $27,000,000,000.00. The estimated current cost to just return to the moon today would be about $4,100,000,000.00 for a crew of 4. What you're talking about would cost more than the asteroid would be worth if it were made of solid gold and towed directly to earth. Then add in a moon mining colony and some fictional rocket train ferry system FFS.
You think like an autism afflicted 10 year old wanna be science nerd. -
2022-11-06 at 8:17 PM UTCYOu idiots you don't move the rock in space, you build the processing factory ON THE ASTEROID THAT YOU MINE and you send down the finished product to earth on robots
what did you think there would be a guy with a pitch axe and an old trucker hauling it back and forth??? ITS SPACE DUMB FUCKS!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT -
2022-11-06 at 8:20 PM UTC
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2022-11-06 at 8:31 PM UTCThe asteroid that sent the dinosaurs into extinction was 6 miles across. What happened to it? It should still all be there, buried deep.
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2022-11-06 at 8:33 PM UTC
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2022-11-06 at 9 PM UTCYou are gonna be fueling your space tow truck at my robot staffed fuel stations you small potato head
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2022-11-06 at 9:02 PM UTC
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2022-11-06 at 9:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker I did a rough calculation. A solid hold asteroid that size would be worth roughly $27,000,000,000.00. The estimated current cost to just return to the moon today would be about $4,100,000,000.00 for a crew of 4. What you're talking about would cost more than the asteroid would be worth if it were made of solid gold and towed directly to earth. Then add in a moon mining colony and some fictional rocket train ferry system FFS.
You think like an autism afflicted 10 year old wanna be a science nerd.
gold would also come down in price but would be plentiful for electronic conductors.
the first one would cost more than it's cache yet that should be done just for the experience. however, in the future, things will come down in price. the high cost is usually due to research costs or fuel costs. but they're experimenting with plasma-discharging forms of fuel for launching vehicles into space. but just like computers were worth millions and now you can get one for 100 bucks refurbished, the same with having a sort of a convoy of crafts coming and going, dropping off, and being refurbished with parachutes and then re-deployed. just like the Navy does when launching jets the space force would do the same. or a privatized network would be involved. no one owns the moon so this could be shared globally.
i like the speckles concept better than a tether and rotate to slow and tow. but the cone catcher would have to catch up to it's original speed and then brake slowly until it stops then tow it back that way. but im not sure how you would then land it gently onto the moon. we don't want liter the moon. I also suggest the far side of it that we don't see. it still gets sunlight, we just never see it so it's called The Dark Side. but it gets the same amount of sunlight -
2022-11-06 at 9:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by slide22 gold would also come down in price but would be plentiful for electronic conductors.
the first one would cost more than it's cache yet that should be done just for the experience. however, in the future, things will come down in price. the high cost is usually due to research costs or fuel costs. but they're experimenting with plasma-discharging forms of fuel for launching vehicles into space. but just like computers were worth millions and now you can get one for 100 bucks refurbished, the same with having a sort of a convoy of crafts coming and going, dropping off, and being refurbished with parachutes and then re-deployed. just like the Navy does when launching jets the space force would do the same. or a privatized network would be involved. no one owns the moon so this could be shared globally.
i like the speckles concept better than a tether and rotate to slow and tow. but the cone catcher would have to catch up to it's original speed and then brake slowly until it stops then tow it back that way. but im not sure how you would then land it gently onto the moon. we don't want liter the moon. I also suggest the far side of it that we don't see. it still gets sunlight, we just never see it so it's called The Dark Side. but it gets the same amount of sunlight
There is no such thing as school bus sized pure gold nuggets floating around in the solar system you feckless limp dicked dumbass. -
2022-11-06 at 9:09 PM UTCAlso venus isn't that far from Earth. it's closer than Mars. like half or quarter the distance. and it's like an oven on Cleaning Mode. once you perfect this type of operation and make it relatively inexpensive, we could just dump all of our toxic trash on venus. the reason is it would just melt or be turned over into the soil as venus is said to naturally do. it's a relatively smooth surface because the soil is molten and constantly turning in most areas.
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2022-11-06 at 9:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker There is no such thing as school bus sized pure gold nuggets floating around in the solar system you feckless limp dicked dumbass.
Dude you brought it up. You're now baiting for your own third-grade insults.
nothing is pure that is floating out there. it's mostly aggregate like the concrete mix. a little of this and that. sand, rocks, others. -
2022-11-06 at 9:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by slide22 Also venus isn't that far from Earth. it's closer than Mars. like half or quarter the distance. and it's like an oven on Cleaning Mode. once you perfect this type of operation and make it relatively inexpensive, we could just dump all of our toxic trash on venus. the reason is it would just melt or be turned over into the soil as venus is said to naturally do. it's a relatively smooth surface because the soil is molten and constantly turning in most areas.
Do you have any clue of what it costs to per pound to launch cargo out of orbit? It runs roughly $10,000 per pound of payload just to achieve orbit. -
2022-11-06 at 9:23 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Do you have any clue of what it costs to per pound to launch cargo out of orbit? It runs roughly $10,000 per pound of payload just to achieve orbit.
I knew that already. We're talking about the current cost of outdated rocket fuel. we're never going to advance if we keep burning that shit to get into space.
there currently are research in plasma-discharge propulsion. we're probably 15 years away from a first successful launch -
2022-11-06 at 9:23 PM UTC
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2022-11-06 at 9:25 PM UTC
Originally posted by slide22 I also suggest the far side of it that we don't see. it still gets sunlight, we just never see it so it's called The Dark Side. but it gets the same amount of sunlight
The dark side of the Moon is actually the shadow of Earth, projected onto the Moon, with the Sun shining on both. -
2022-11-06 at 9:37 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The dark side of the Moon is actually the shadow of Earth, projected onto the Moon, with the Sun shining on both.
The moons rotation takes 27.3 days. It's orbit around earth is also 27.3 days. Therefore the same sides are always facing away from and towards the Earth. It's called tidal locking. Eventually the Earth would become tidal locked to the sun, have no seasons, and boil. Except the sun will go red giant before that. -
2022-11-06 at 11 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker The moons rotation takes 27.3 days. It's orbit around earth is also 27.3 days. Therefore the same sides are always facing away from and towards the Earth. It's called tidal locking. Eventually the Earth would become tidal locked to the sun, have no seasons, and boil. Except the sun will go red giant before that.
When you're talking about tidal lock, that has nothing to do with the light you see on the Moon. The shadow you see is when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, acting as a shadow. That's why the light on the Moon changes through the season, because of the relative angle to the Sun, not the Earth. -
2022-11-07 at 1:23 AM UTChow u gonna get past the dome tho?
