• deaf_fish@lemm.ee
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    I sure hope we find a way to do this and spread the increase in wealth and prosperity mostly equally amongst all people.

    I would hate it if one guy got super powerful and filthy rich off this and then monopolized the asteroid mining industry.

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    If the movie Armageddon taught us anything it’s that it’ll be super easy to train miners for space.

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      Harry Stamper never never misses a depth that he aims for.

      Also love how this movie stuck up for Mom and pop oil companies

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    Launch costs are coming way down. Once we get enough people into space to get industry going this will be great. Give adventureous people something to do and not destroy our planet. Asteriods are airless lumps of rock and metal just hanging around.

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      Give adventureous people something to do and not destroy our planet

      Space Mining, Deep Rock Galactic style

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        We launch a few rockets to bring starter ewuipment and from then on everything gets mined from NEAs (Near Earth Asteroids) or the moon. Then no more rocket launches needed except to refresh crew as we already do with ISS.

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    My guess is that we won’t be doing any digging on asteroids at first. We will send a Spaceship (with 100tn of cargo capacity) and grab a whole small asteroid. Then the spaceship with the small asteroid Inside the cargo bay will return to earth. It sounds science fiction but don’t forget we have already collected material from asteroids twice (the Japanese returned with 5gr and tre US 250gr).

    You don’t even have to go very far, there are hundreds of small asteroids between the moon and earth. I think we will be able to collect a whole small asteroid in 10 years max.

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      Can’t wait for them to try and redirect an asteroid into orbit, fuck it up, and cause it to crash into earth

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        Yeah, I’d vote for a space treaty saying that if you bring a chunk of rock toward earth that is too big to burn up in the atmosphere, it’s a potential act of war that can be dealt with ASAP

        “ I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!”

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      I mean. If the planet or asteroid isn’t habitable and has no ecosystem to speak of, then we aren’t really fucking anything up.

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        It’s just a new frontier playground for billionaires after they fuck everything up here. It won’t be used for anything worthwhile, like actual science or whatever.

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    STOP MINING. STOP EXPANDING. STOP BEING OBSESSED WITH “GROWTH”

    b-b-but 8 billion people isn’t enough

    YES IT IS