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This is great but it would be a better return of investment to go for the moon or build up station infrastructure here. The moon is already known to have H3. More needs to be learned about what metals are there. Asteroids and other objects regularly impact the surface, mine the moon and you mine asteroids that hit it. The moon is an asteroid magnet. Why spend tons of fuel and expensive drop stages to go all the way out to a near earth rock and bring it back?

>>447

We know of asteroids that for a fact have elements we can't find in such density anywhere else and in much larger qualities than the moon.

they ought to smash the asteroid into the moon and mine it there

I just want to smuggle space drugs and raid space pilgrims and steal their women

>>453

The amount isn't in question or the typically estimated value of an asteroid. It's just, getting a manned flight to Mars would take less fuel and resources. Mine near Earth rocks yes, but soon, not now. Plenty on the Moon to get started. And if a Rock were to wizz by within Earths SOI then great, let's catch the fucker. Any thing else is going to take WAY more effort than building bases and refineries locally, in Earth SOI.

If the infrastructure is there more resources can be taken advantage of. Right now the only destination space rocks have in down here. Useful, but better if used in orbit to put together rather large ships to avoid surface launches as much as possible.

Getting into space isn't just some game where the players can just pick and choose what to do next. From the day NASA was told to land on the Moon space development required precise planning, so too does an effort to get off this rock as a civilization.

I agree that putting a base on the moon would be more efficient in the long run but at the same time if we are trying to develop better technology and fuel sources to be able to reach asteroids quicker, wouldn't that also be more beneficial. If we have all our top scientists researching better fuel sources and better space travel methods then that would be more advantageous in the LONG LONG run.

Great news. Just think, if the us of a had an astroid in orbit to mine they would control the flow of precious metals. Boom! The us of a would be able to survive without the petrodollar.

And it is very cool ofc.

This is the way forward lads.

>>472

SWEDEN

YES

>>439

1. If he does it, he will easily become the richest man in the Solar System.

2. I'm willing to become an illegal alien deported to Mexico to make this noble dream a reality.

>>454

>they ought to smash the asteroid into the moon and mine it there

1. You are wrong. All this effort to leave one globe only to end up on another?

2. Asteroid mining is infinitely more lucrative than Mars or Moon steading.

>>472

1. It's for robots, not for your sexy ass.

2. You say it as if you are going to be always healthy. Have you considered being old and sick in space?

3. Is this picture similar to you?

>>439

Nice links but no mention of Trump in them.

Why does he think this is necessary?

Trump, the new dunce paradigm. Can't anyone image a better administrator for the incoming decadence?

>>495

>>493

going to space is a human necessity

stop being a welfare sucking dindu and youll understand

>>439

so you are saying Trump is the next jfk?

>>497

>>490

I repeat, it's a great news, except it's fake.

This is where OP links take you:

https://archive.is/uN0Zo = https://archive.is/2015/https://8ch.net/1/res/5647.html

→ https://archive.is/mg3HS = https://archive.is/2015/https://8ch.net/n/res/113600.html

→→ https://archive.is/ei2wC = https://archive.is/2015/https://8ch.net/1/res/4136.html

→→→ https://archive.is/rzPgA = http://slashdot.org/story/15/07/18/2041255/asteroid-mining-companys-first-satellite-launches-from-space-station

→→→ https://archive.is/QauFf = http://www.planetaryresources.com/2015/07/space-com-asteroid-mining-companys-1st-satellite-launches-from-space-station/

No mention of Trump.

If ye were as autistic as I am, ye would know this as well as I do. OP preys on yere lack of autisticismus, ye nameless dunces. Why ye no autists???

>>456

> Getting into space isn't just some game where the players can just pick and choose what to do next.

It is time for you to stop posting

Asteroid mining is all well and good, but I think it'd take less fuel per kilo to land on the moon and mine it and send the results back to earth than to go out to an asteroid. Added to that the fact that the moon has the potential to have a "lunar elevator" built out of M5 fiber (or similar materials) that could weigh less than 150 tonnes in total.

This would mean a huge reduction in cost of raw metal in space, as the delta-v required to get from L1 to LEO is only 3.1 km/s, or 1.3 to GEO, as opposed to a delta-v to get from the surface to LEO of about 10 km/s.