 Kalon
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
 370 Posts
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:17:56 PM
This is a dumb plan. Im all for getting more resources from space but gold and platnum? The world uses those as currency! Hasnt anyone heard of inflation? Immagine that but world wide leaving every country that doesnt harvest materials from asteroids flat broke. Also, the work conditions could be worse than those in labor camps because who could stop it?
Not a good idea. Not a good idea. |
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 Draculya
Male, 30-39, Asia
6298 Posts
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Friday, April 27, 2012 10:37:02 PM
T-Rex: "I have a plan... we're running out of resources. Why don't we get a big asteroid and steer it towards us. We'll harvest the bounty at the Yucatan Peninsula." |
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 chance13
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
220 Posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:32:58 AM
Water is the bigger prize here. With water you can make liquid hydrogen and oxygen in space...fuel and breathable atmosphere created from asteroids.
Pretty incredible. |
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 sutra46
Female, 40-49, Asia
2007 Posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 8:16:03 AM
Am still not clear about water, is it for thespace stations or incase we run short way over here? |
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 PinkRhoid
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1149 Posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:09:06 AM
Never mind that we don't feed the starving of the world, don't stop fighting each other, allow our elected ones to bend us over...let's plough our billions into collecting water off a space rock.
They want to collect everything they can including minerals and fossil fuels so you look pretty petty trying to twist it to sound more in line with your point of view. Someone tries to find a way to solve one problem and all you can say for yourself is how bad they are for not solving other problems? At least they are trying something. Just when is the last time you did something amazing or great that potentially helps millions of people in ANY way. You're pathetic. |
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PinkRhoid
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1149 Posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:05:38 AM
Saw this on the news while at the hospital after a car wreck. Everyone in the lobby started laughing and making fun. It was so disheartening to see how narrow-minded the animals around me are. Even if they fail at least they are trying and at least they will learn. You don't make progress by sitting with your thumb up your ass. I wish them the best of luck and hope they make all the retards to simple to dream big look like the pathetic apes they are. |
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 drawman61
Male, 50-59, Europe
1392 Posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:49:31 AM
Never mind that we don't feed the starving of the world, don't stop fighting each other, allow our elected ones to bend us over...let's plough our billions into collecting water off a space rock. |
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 clockwork208
Male, 30-39, Western US
834 Posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:07:00 AM
This is like fusion - always 20 years out :( |
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 PoopNoodle
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
397 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:06:32 PM
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:21:17 PM
i'm gonna call bullpoo.
Not to be too cheesey, but people called the Wright brothers full of crap. They said the same thing about indoor plumbing, electriicty, telephones, computers, modern medicine, cars etc etc |
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 mervviscious
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
1785 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:15:30 PM
space mining is no bullpoo... Neal Degras Tyson from The Daily Show...
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 dsp2003
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
136 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:13:30 PM
I read an article about this becoming an inevitability over a year ago, though most of the experts cited stated that at best this is something that won't be accomplished for at least another 20-30 years with the most liberal estimates. The most conservative estimates quoted 50+ years. |
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mervviscious
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
1785 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:43:02 PM
go for it.... another step to get us off this rock.... |
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 pigsnout5
Female, 18-29, Western US
548 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:21:18 PM
i'm gonna call bullpoo. |
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 ledzeppeloyd
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2184 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:31:47 PM
yea lets get oil from other places only to bring it back here and drat up the earth some more |
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 8BitHero
Male, 18-29, Europe
5420 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:16:41 PM
@Steelgrid
USG Ishimura*
Don't worry though, that planet cracker is only a problem if they find a Marker. |
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 Squrlz4Sale
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
3319 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:09:02 PM
There is only one way that raiding asteroids for buried minerals and stuff is going to work: Squirrels in Space. You heard it here first. =^.^= |
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 Powernade
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
4 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:01:33 PM
Always drilling where we dont belong. - Fatninja01
Please die quickly and quietly, as to not hold back those of us with vision. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:59:31 PM
Always drilling where we dont belong. |
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 bunny_knight
Male, 18-29, Canada
338 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:53:33 PM
this has to be onion. |
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jamie76
Male, 30-39, Western US
2249 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:49:46 PM
The GOP said Obama killed NASA, killed space exploration (even though it was Bush that but NASA year after year) and Obama said that private companies would take over the role and go even further...
Looks like Obama was right on the money. |
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 skypirate
Male, 18-29, Western US
1786 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:05:28 PM
wow, cool idea...at least the rappers are happy! |
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 Steelgrid
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
2685 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 3:55:23 PM
Has the USS Ishimura not taught us anything?
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tedgp
Male, 30-39, Europe
2928 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 3:15:51 PM
Current costs to launch a mission to mine approx $26000 worth of materials from an asteroid..... $2 billion. |
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 TKD_Master
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
4827 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:55:13 PM
"Hell Yeah! The future is right here. But... who owns the asteroids? "
Nobody does. If nobody owns it and the UN hasn't declared it to be un-ownable, then anybody can mine that poo. I don't think anybody will have much competition for mining an asteroid, especially considering how many there are and how few people will be able to mine them. |
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uatme
Male, 18-29, Canada
790 Posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:54:48 PM
I'd hate to see how long an environmental assessment of mining an asteroid would take... |
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