Hey Veeky Forums, when do you think that we'll have industrialized, large-scale asteroid mining?
What kind of infrastructure would be required to set such a thing up?
Hey Veeky Forums, when do you think that we'll have industrialized, large-scale asteroid mining?
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Jordan Wright
after we would colonize other planets and mining on them will be insufficient to keep on with demand and. We would probably built some industrial space station and lunch cargo to them in rockets or some shit
Xavier Torres
I think by the time we get there our economy will have already been completely automated. I don't mean like 95% automated, I mean fully automated. Machines and AI do every single job: they are from doctors to musicians, from drivers to programmers. They even maintain themselves. I imagine the future of mankind as being some kind of utopia where machines do absolutely everything and humans don't have to work. It's funny because if it coincidences with the invention of AI it will be literally the return of God/Jesus, in the Bible prior to God's wrath Adam and Eve didn't have to work same will happen to humans. Asteroid mining will be just another part of this system. Our economic system based on trade, demand, surplus, loans etc doesn't work when you account for effectively infinite resources, there's just so much shit the prices of everything drop to practically zero. It also would have to take into account things like when you have immortality, you can take a loan of infinite money because you can work for infinite time to pay it back. I think the future is very bright to mankind, all it takes is not setting the world on fire right now with nukes.
Noah Young
>build small, autonomous, self-refueling mining drones
>send them to the asteroid belt
>drones disintegrate valuable asteroids and spew their materials into intrastellar space
>asteroid dust is collected by larger vessels in gigantic bags and transported to planetside refineries
highly inefficient and very slow, i know, but more plausible than Armageddon-tier asteroid drilling or trying to tow an asteroid into earth's orbit
Alexander Lewis
Not any time soon. The costs would outweigh the benefits.
I'd say it'd be a minimum of 100 years away, probably much longer.
Anthony Butler
>> highly inefficient and slow
Yeah maybe by your proposed method
Alexander Barnes
It will happen & It' very Lucrative.
>$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
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Rare metal mining can pay-off a lot of money
& pay-back space exploration costs.
Thomas Harris
Asteroid Mining
>$$$$ ... trillions of $ ... $$$$
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Lincoln Johnson
The costs are prohibitive in terms of resources and profit.
Quite simply, to move from earth to another asteroid is extremely wastefull compared to any resources an asteroid can provide.
Cameron Stewart
>put rockets onto asteroid
>smash into somewhere useless like the congo or the USA
>mine with regular construction vehicles
Much more efficient.