EPTSeriously though, this could actually finally motivate me in my studies. Imagine contributing to humanity's expansion into space!
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DoomBox
Sweden73 Posts
Seriously though, this could actually finally motivate me in my studies. Imagine contributing to humanity's expansion into space! | ||
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TALegion
United States1187 Posts
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Apples[GG]
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Reminds me of EVE. | ||
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Soralin
United States23 Posts
On April 25 2012 10:36 TALegion wrote: I don't mean to be pessimistic, but am I the only skeptic? I suppose everyone has said this to every milestone in history, but what are the odds that this will be nearly as succesful as they make it sound? It's definitely risky as to if it will actually ever have profitable returns. But its still exciting, even if they fail in being completely successful, they likely will have made this sort of thing much easier, and helped to push technology, and it will be exciting to watch.  Also, the early term stuff they have planned, launching small satellites, and getting them into near Earth asteroid orbits, should be relatively simple. So at least we likely won't end up empty handed from the whole thing. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26036 Posts
On April 25 2012 18:03 Soralin wrote: It's definitely risky as to if it will actually ever have profitable returns. But its still exciting, even if they fail in being completely successful, they likely will have made this sort of thing much easier, and helped to push technology, and it will be exciting to watch. Also, the early term stuff they have planned, launching small satellites, and getting them into near Earth asteroid orbits, should be relatively simple. So at least we likely won't end up empty handed from the whole thing. I think it's just uplifting to see such an ambitious project, with potentially massive benefits for humanity as a whole just existing in its own sake. Too often the news is filled with the worst of what humanity can do, it's nice once and a while to see awe-inspiring ambition that exemplifies our best traits as a species. | ||
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facades
United States13 Posts
On April 20 2012 03:53 felisconcolori wrote: The only snags I see to something like this is finding ways to overcome the physiological stresses of long periods of microgravity, and dealing with the dangerous environment that exists outside the Van Allen belts. But it is something we should've been tackling since the mid-70s. People can go on and on about how we have to "fix the problems on Earth first!" but that (frankly) just won't happen. We can expand, or we can all listen to Dr. Malthus chuckling in the background. (Sadly, I don't think we can FFE.) Malthus' theory is out dated; he didn't predict the rapid growth of technology that helped humanity to continue to expand. Currently America is capable of producing enough food to feed the entire world. While the Malthusian Catastrophe might occur at some point in the future, it is not one of the pressing concerns that would drive the exploration of Asteroids. | ||
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Miyoshino
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Hertzy
Finland355 Posts
On April 25 2012 19:10 facades wrote: Malthus' theory is out dated; he didn't predict the rapid growth of technology that helped humanity to continue to expand. Currently America is capable of producing enough food to feed the entire world. While the Malthusian Catastrophe might occur at some point in the future, it is not one of the pressing concerns that would drive the exploration of Asteroids. All the more reason to get into asteroid mining before we have a looming Malthusian Catastrophe forcing us there. A stitch in time saves ten and all that. | ||
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sunprince
United States2258 Posts
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netherh
United Kingdom333 Posts
Maybe James Cameron will die an untimely death from ingesting moon rocks, and we'll end up with some kind of portal gun or something. | ||
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Douillos
France3195 Posts
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Douillos
France3195 Posts
On April 25 2012 19:10 facades wrote: Malthus' theory is out dated; he didn't predict the rapid growth of technology that helped humanity to continue to expand. Currently America is capable of producing enough food to feed the entire world. While the Malthusian Catastrophe might occur at some point in the future, it is not one of the pressing concerns that would drive the exploration of Asteroids. Food isnt the only ressource that keeps the world from colla^sing nowadays. | ||
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Szordrin
Switzerland151 Posts
On April 25 2012 19:10 facades wrote: Malthus' theory is out dated; he didn't predict the rapid growth of technology that helped humanity to continue to expand. Currently America is capable of producing enough food to feed the entire world. While the Malthusian Catastrophe might occur at some point in the future, it is not one of the pressing concerns that would drive the exploration of Asteroids. Malthus is surely outdated regarding food supply. Means we can easily manage to provide enough food to encounter other severe problems regarding growth. A modified malthusian argument regarding finite resources on the other hand is not so unrealistic. There are different world pop growth and economic growth predictions, and depending on which ones you favor you run into difficulties supplying earths population with all necessary resources sooner or later. We won't die to a lack of food, but some catastrophic events regarding the lack of other resources is not unlikely I think. (Again, it's hard to predict future developments). On topic: I like it. We need people to push ahead. Technological development is imho the only way we can tackle all the problems we will encounter in the next 50 to 100 years. And asteroid mining surely isn't too bad. btw. regarding mining platin etc. what about supply & demand? Won't the increase drop prices or will the amount be small enough not to influence the market 2 much? (I don't know about the global platin market for example...) | ||
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kollin
United Kingdom8380 Posts
On April 25 2012 10:43 Apples[GG] wrote: Interesting. Reminds me of EVE. I was thinking that too lol. Hope goons don't show up :D | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
http://www.planetaryresources.com/careers/ | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
For 100$ you can get a high resolution photo of any place on earth or space of your choosing taken with their space telescope. This is something that usually costs 10000$ http://www.planetaryresources.com/2012/06/back-us-on-kickstarter/ | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
But then again if you think about it, there could be a lot of cloud cover etc (I guess it doesn't only use a normal camera and combines multiple imaging types?). Also you start to get into international issues with countries perhaps taking very big issue with this kind of imaging by whomever just pays $100, depending on just how high-res/zoomed in the images are. | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
This offer is there to make publicity and they will only do this if there is enough interest in it :p | ||
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qzlsecret
Mexico126 Posts
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DonKey_
Liechtenstein1356 Posts
On April 25 2012 03:48 DannyJ wrote: This seems like something made up to build up to a James Cameron movie, even though it's true. http://www.planetaryresources.com/team/ You may be on to something seeing how he is listed under their advisers. XD | ||
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