Extraterrestrial mining - Page 2

The_Dude · January 1st, 2013, 01:34 AM

Money. That's about it, nobody wants to spend the hundreds of Billions required to colonise another planet.

EdgarsSTAR · January 2nd, 2013, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Dude

Money. That's about it, nobody wants to spend the hundreds of Billions required to colonise another planet.

I want to spend hundreds of billions to colonise another planet! But I have small problem I don't have such a big money.....

kicaj · January 2nd, 2013, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by tuanhung

why dont they build space stations on mars/moon now? u can build underground cities and have ur reactors on top generating whatever energy and crap u need to sustain life....the only problem is food, but ppl should have no problem eating lab food harvest from hydro setups...

what do you mean now? if you decide to start preparing to build base on mars today, in the most optimistic scenario you are able to do it in 15-20 years.

***VelesHomais*** · January 6th, 2013, 06:50 AM

Actually it can be done in 10 years.

CanadianDemon · January 6th, 2013, 11:27 AM

It could be done however fast we chose it to be. Money makes the world go round and stuff go a hell of a lot faster too.

2co2co · January 8th, 2013, 05:01 AM

A big worry is that some Islamists or Al-Qaeda-like group hijacks an asteroid and aims at... target? Even the entire UK may be too small for that sort of attack.

EdgarsSTAR · January 9th, 2013, 11:20 PM

And yes! Aren't minerals from open space radioactive? Because envirenment around the asteroids is shitty a lot of sun radiation is comming, In our case (earth mining) our minerals are protected of the radiatation, because of the ozene layer or they (minerals) lost their radioactivity because of the long time? Isn't going to be dangerouse to deliver them back to earth or use in any kind of space constructions?

Citystyle · January 15th, 2013, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 2co2co

A big worry is that some Islamists or Al-Qaeda-like group hijacks an asteroid and aims at... target? Even the entire UK may be too small for that sort of attack.

Id be more concerned about terrorist organisations building dirty bombs, which will always be a lot easier to do and control.

Hard to worry about such organisations using a technology so complex and obscure that it doesn't yet exist in totality.

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January 1st, 2013, 01:34 AM	#21
The_Dude Future Architect Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New Westminster, BC Posts: 199 Likes (Received): 1	Money. That's about it, nobody wants to spend the hundreds of Billions required to colonise another planet.

January 8th, 2013, 05:01 AM	#26
2co2co Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 385 Likes (Received): 9	A big worry is that some Islamists or Al-Qaeda-like group hijacks an asteroid and aims at... target? Even the entire UK may be too small for that sort of attack.

January 9th, 2013, 11:20 PM	#27
EdgarsSTAR Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Venlo/Rezekne Posts: 412 Likes (Received): 8	And yes! Aren't minerals from open space radioactive? Because envirenment around the asteroids is shitty a lot of sun radiation is comming, In our case (earth mining) our minerals are protected of the radiatation, because of the ozene layer or they (minerals) lost their radioactivity because of the long time? Isn't going to be dangerouse to deliver them back to earth or use in any kind of space constructions?