Goldpill thread Should scientists have to pay "market value"

>>2644377
>asteroid mining

Good meme.

>>2644390
1980: Computers? haha
1990: Internet? haha
2000: Electric vehicles, again? haha
2010: Cryptocurrency? haha
where will you be when this anon gets utterly shitter shafted

>>2644430
There are physical problems with asteroid mining. If you understood basic orbital dynamics you would know that.

>>2644442
This is what everyone said about all of the other technologies I listed.

>>2644481
Have you every tried to slow down a 60 million ton object to earth velocity?

>>2644494
Have you ever tried to fly across the Atlantic 100+ years ago?

>>2644494
>Implying it takes that much delta V if the object is far enough out.

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>>2644494
Every day we come closer to reproducing the highly energetic natural events that brought our stupid Earth into existence. Speculating on gold is speculating against a spacefaring future.

>>2644430
2017:Cryptocurrency failure?haha

>>2644377
>Should scientists have to pay "market value" for it?
U w0t m8?
I'm a scientist, and I have to pay market value for gold.

>with asteroid mining in the works?
But not for gold. No one is trying to asteroid mine for gold, because that would be stupid. Water it is.

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>>2644633
I'm asking if you should have to. It's only expensive because it's treated as a hedge by idiots who don't realize it's not a hedge anymore.

And of course gold won't be first, it will mostly just be a byproduct of the other (useful) resource mining.

>>2644660
>And of course gold won't be first, it will mostly just be a byproduct of the other (useful) resource mining.
At some point, we'll probably see spacegold, but it won't be an issue (on earth) until we have a new and more cost efficient space transport system.

I think the whole private space and space mining sector is highly interesting, and will be a big thing "soon", but you can't invest in anything as a private investor. I'd really love to sink some money into spaceX, blue origin and DSI.

>>2644931
I'm confident we can make deceleration and re-entry systems economical for virtually any mass to the point that even the prospect of sending it back would crash gold's price if it doesn't already before then.