spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

A looks like this : 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers

Do you assume anyone might be interested in ⚒️ ? 🤔 🤑

Picture : :ccby: :cc_nd: https://www.statista.com/chart/8093/the-colossal-untapped-value-of-asteroids

spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

Mining ⚒️ just the top 10 most cost-effective ☄️- that is, those that are both closest to and greatest in value 💰 - would produce a profit of around US$1.5 trillion https://hir.harvard.edu/economics-of-the-stars

claudiacaesaris,
@claudiacaesaris@ohai.social avatar

@spaceflight It would be swell if we could mine some of the rarer elements without exploiting the global south, too.

spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

@claudiacaesaris it wouldn't be "global" at all 🪐

DenOfEarth,
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@spaceflight
It's all good and well until somebody unplugs the freezer.

spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

@DenOfEarth When the ultrasound 🔉 system was switched off, they woke up again https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/25/hibernation-artificially-triggered-in-potential-space-travel-breakthrough

DenOfEarth,
@DenOfEarth@mas.to avatar

@spaceflight
Fair, but I was making a cheeky The Expanse reference...

spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

@DenOfEarth I'm not so much about SciFi, but the current technical possibilities (which are quite promising)

spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

The ☄️ Redirect Mission was intended to develop a to visit a large and collect a multi-ton boulder ⛰️ from its surface. It would then redirect the boulder into orbit around the 🌙, where 👨‍🚀 would have explored it and returned to with samples. Directive 1, issued 📆 Dec. 11, 2017*, ended the mission. But many of the central in development for that mission, such as ☀️⚡ , will continue https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/asteroid-redirect-robotic-mission-arrm

spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

☄️ ⚒️ examples

• - In-Situ Resource Utilization https://space-mining.tech
• 🇬🇧 - and Main Belt https://asteroidminingcorporation.co.uk
🇨🇦 - off-planet generation https://www.csmc-scms.ca
• - , production of from carbon dioxide https://lunaroutpost.com
• - building and operating https://www.cislunarindustries.com
• - https://www.offworld.ai

Several others are developing a (maybe not for reasons 🤔) https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/robot%3Atype=spaceflight

Animation by :cc_zero:

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AlexMorin,
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@spaceflight others have highlighted one way in which this may not work: finding and adding a gigantic amount of thing X to the market is very likely to crash the price of thing X making it unsustainable to go and fetch it. Am not an economist, but that sounds right?

spaceflight,
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

@AlexMorin if you're the first, it will certainly be profitable. You won't destroy your own market prices, or would you ? 🤔

tony,
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    AlexMorin,
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    @tony @spaceflight fair. If you control most of the supply

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