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Asteroid Mining - its realz!

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Cailais
The Red Pill Taker Group
#1 - 2012-04-24 12:00:25 UTC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17827347

Shocked

A slew of questions come to mind: Is Chribba involved? Will James Cameron get podded in a future 'hulkageddon'? Why does the article talk about this 'gold' stuff? Haven't they heard of Tritanium?

Personally I'm going to invest now.

C.
J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-04-24 12:01:52 UTC  |  Edited by: J3ssica Alba
Ye gold and platinum .. so .. antiquated. Megacyte and zydrine is where the money's at.

"They struggle to see how it could be cost-effective, even with platinum and gold worth nearly £35 per gram ($1,600 an ounce). An upcoming Nasa mission to return just 60g (two ounces) of material from an asteroid to Earth will cost about $1bn."

If people are sceptic because of that, just remember NASA is a government agency and one that is now bloated beyond hope from the time when it was actually doing anything useful (moon missions in the 60s). A private enterprise if properly funded and without any governmental interference would be way more efficient and therefore cheaper. If this sparks another space race but between competing companies instead of countries, humanity will finally climb out of this gravity well : something that should have happened years ago.
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Angel Vrae
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-04-24 12:03:30 UTC
Saw a similar story on another site, if they are serious about it then it will be good. Though I think we should all get a petition going for them to name the company O.R.E :p

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#4 - 2012-04-24 12:06:28 UTC
J3ssica Alba wrote:
Ye gold and platinum .. so .. antiquated. Megacyte and zydrine is where the money's at.


Wait until I fire gold ammo into your weakspots.

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J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-04-24 12:06:33 UTC
In a massive coincidence the new Eve login screen has an earth like planet with .. asteroids in orbit .. same day as this announcement is happening :D
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Whitehound
#6 - 2012-04-24 12:12:32 UTC
Sure, once you know where there is a chunk of gold in space can you haul it home, but how do you find it?

Finding gold in a river is easy, because a river has to ability to wash it out of rocks and to create deposits, which with good experience and technique can be found. No idea how geologists find gold veins these days, but I assume they will have some indicator minerals to give them an increased chance of finding one, and it still is not giving them a guarantee... Finding gold in space, while we are still trying hard to find water, sounds very optimistic.

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J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-04-24 12:17:01 UTC
Whitehound wrote:
Sure, once you know where there is a chunk of gold in space can you haul it home, but how do you find it?

Finding gold in a river is easy, because a river has to ability to wash it out of rocks and to create deposits, which with good experience and technique can be found. No idea how geologists find gold veins these days, but I assume they will have some indicator minerals to give them an increased chance of finding one, and it still is not giving them a guarantee... Finding gold in space, while we are still trying hard to find water, sounds very optimistic.



http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/info/394-The-Infrared-Spectrograph-IRS-

They can tell what minerals are in a sun / planet several billion light years away, I'm pretty sure they can get a rough idea what a roid a couple of AU away has in it =)
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Whitehound
#8 - 2012-04-24 12:37:43 UTC
J3ssica Alba wrote:
They can tell what minerals are in a sun / planet several billion light years away, I'm pretty sure they can get a rough idea what a roid a couple of AU away has in it =)

This is because a sun is very keen on telling you what it is made of. It radiates its composition.

So far did we fly a probe into the trail of a comet and crash an object into an asteroid to find out what they are made of. These missions took years to get to the data. Do you want to do this for every rock in space and for the chance of finding a bucket full of gold nuggets? You will literally need to look for a shiny gold nugget the size of a house before you can think of getting it home. Such a huge nugget does make the effort worth it if you can find one.

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seany1212
M Y S T
#9 - 2012-04-24 12:45:00 UTC
J3ssica Alba wrote:
If this sparks another space race but between competing companies instead of countries, humanity will finally climb out of this gravity well : something that should have happened years ago.


This, countries held the monopoly on it for too long, companies far richer are willing to invest far more than what individual countries outlined for a space budget and this is where I feel the space race will truly take off, see you all in space Bear
Benilopax
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-04-24 12:48:25 UTC
http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/

4 hours 41 minutes to go....

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Kazellis
Evolution
Northern Coalition.
#11 - 2012-04-24 13:14:08 UTC
J3ssica Alba wrote:
Ye gold and platinum .. so .. antiquated. Megacyte and zydrine is where the money's at.

"They struggle to see how it could be cost-effective, even with platinum and gold worth nearly £35 per gram ($1,600 an ounce). An upcoming Nasa mission to return just 60g (two ounces) of material from an asteroid to Earth will cost about $1bn."

If people are sceptic because of that, just remember NASA is a government agency and one that is now bloated beyond hope from the time when it was actually doing anything useful (moon missions in the 60s). A private enterprise if properly funded and without any governmental interference would be way more efficient and therefore cheaper. If this sparks another space race but between competing companies instead of countries, humanity will finally climb out of this gravity well : something that should have happened years ago.


On a serious note.

I think you failed to see the big picture of why NASA existed and what effect it has had on the world. No one has explained it better than Neil deGrasse Tyson so I'll let him tell you.
Lifelongnoob
State War Academy
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-04-24 13:22:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Lifelongnoob
J3ssica Alba wrote:
Ye gold and platinum .. so .. antiquated. Megacyte and zydrine is where the money's at.



nah they need to find a tech moon for real profits
Ciar Meara
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#13 - 2012-04-24 13:24:11 UTC
This is going to be freaking awesome.

About time they did this, if you consider the 35 grams a valid statement just remember how huge these asteroids are and just how much ore you can get out of them with the right methods.

Thinking small never got anyone on the moon or the other side of the world or rich.

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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#14 - 2012-04-24 13:33:02 UTC
Hi there and welcome to the asteroid club. I am your director for the day and I will add your thread to the queue of asteroid related topics found in the link below

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=100114&find=unread

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Cailais
The Red Pill Taker Group
#15 - 2012-04-24 13:40:30 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Hi there and welcome to the asteroid club. I am your director for the day and I will add your thread to the queue of asteroid related topics found in the link below

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=100114&find=unread


You Sir are providing a "useful and valuable service". I salute you 07. Big smile

C.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#16 - 2012-04-24 13:49:38 UTC
Wow! Don't these guys know anything? If you bring back enough gold to pay off your mission, you will devalue gold worldwide.

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Trading Unknown
Doomheim
#17 - 2012-04-24 13:52:15 UTC
Benilopax wrote:
http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/

4 hours 41 minutes to go....


Good god who picked this music?

Is this what they're going to punish dissident asteroid miners with?
Forluhn
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#18 - 2012-04-24 13:52:23 UTC
Cailais wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17827347

Shocked

A slew of questions come to mind: Is Chribba involved? Will James Cameron get podded in a future 'hulkageddon'? Why does the article talk about this 'gold' stuff? Haven't they heard of Tritanium?

Personally I'm going to invest now.

C.





You beat me to it!
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#19 - 2012-04-24 14:02:36 UTC
The gold and platinum they mine are free, so what could possibly go wrong with this

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Arkturus McFadden
Anukar
#20 - 2012-04-24 14:03:31 UTC
They better mine veldspar
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