NASA planning to explore asteroid worth $10,000 QUADRILLION worth

This seems fucking cool. But please, no space communism.

>NASA has no plans to bring the massive asteroid home and lacks the technology to mine it

>>8638033
Scientific clickbaits are the worst

That shit is a giant metal ball
It's like saying "Jupiter is worth 10^58 dollars!"

>>8638040
>But please, no space communism.

Fuck you. If we were able to have much more than we need then the perfect communist utopia can begin. We should start by genociding all rich people.

>>8638044
Bruh just bomb it, and get the goods, it won't add up to $10,000 quadrillion, but it's still a lot.

>>8638059
The question it's about the chance of retrieve.

Can it be done?

>>8638081
>wahh, why does he have more stuff than me? He must obviously be stealing from me! I know, I'll just kill him and steal back my stuff

>>8638086
If you had enough money to support you and your entire extended family for 1000 generations, while other people are starving, it is moral to steal from them.

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>>8638033
I for one welcome our new space commodity overlords

>>8638086
No, that's not the point. If you think killing the rich is about jealousy then you have been brainwashed.

Tell me, if we were able to become perfect communists... do you think the very rich would let us?

>Sure. All this time I have had 100 times more wealth and status than you but I'll just happily let you get that same wealth and status, therefore lowering my own.

They wouldn't. Someone who is rich in capitalism would NEVER allow capitalism to end. We've heard the phrase. Don't rock the boat. If communism happened, everyone would be rich so the rich today would lose all their power. No one would work for them if all their workers were also rich.

That is why we have to kill them. Because they don't want to rock the boat but we want to rick it. We want everyone to be rich. They want everyone else to be poor so that they can have all the status and wealth.

>>8638095

you're a fucking moron. communism will never work.

>>8638095
/pol/ thinks that communism is kike propaganda because... I don't know honestly. They keep raving about a few rich jews controlling the world but fully espouse the right wing capitalist economics that has allowed them to reach that state of power through their money. I've heard arguments about the USSR being jewish controlled so some of them might think that jewish soviet "communists" created a centralized command structure to control everyone through equality and degeneracy, nevermind the fact that the USSR was anti-semitic. There's just no arguing with these people honestly.

>>8638040
i... it's not communism if you are post scarcity

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>>8638089
>>8638095
>there exists finite resources
>through the hard work and ingenuity of my ancestors and I, I've gained an above-average share of those resources
>it's moral for someone else who did not work hard and/or made poor decisions to come and take my resources
This shit is why I practice at the shooting range on a regular basis

>>8638104
If we start mining asteroids with ridiculous amount of wealth then yes we fucking can.

And even without that we still can, but we will have to settle with everyone being middle class, not rich. Which is also fine. Communism does not care about wealth, it cares mostly about economic equality so that everyone has a fair chance at being succesful.

But a communist revolution always has to start with the genocide of rich people as they would never allow the rest to become rich. You know:

Being rich is not about having a lot of money. It is about having more money than everyone else.

>>8638110
>it's moral for someone else who did not work hard and/or made poor decisions to come and take my resources

I don't think this is moral. I think it is moral to kill them and then take the wealth they peacefully left behind.

I do not hate the rich, but I believe in what human psychology and economics tell us. People always have incentives and they work with those incentives in minds.

Political incentives can explain the most benevolent people and the worst tyrants to day. People who manage slave states only do so because it is in their best interest to do it. They are not bad people, it is just that they have no other choice. If they ever stop mining that gold with their slaves then someone else will do it and then kill them and take their power. That is how dictatorships work. That is why dictators are so cruel. If they are start being benevolent then someone will fuck them up and start a revolution against them.

The same happens with the rich. They have an incentive to keep everyone poor, so that they can stay rich. Unfortunately that is human nature. They will always have that incentive in mind. The only way to help them is by murdering them and hoping that their kids will be able to grow without those cancerous incentives and think more about equality and peace.

>>8638110
>le rich people are rich because they work hard maymay
>le only dumb/lazy people are not rich
>rich people's clueless offspring deserve to have more control over society in spite of any lack of skill

How much more cucked can you get? Licking the ballsack of a bunch of people that would dismiss you outright if you disagreed with them.

>>8638109
That's fair.

>hey, want some steel? Go ahead and take some, there's literally more than all of humanity could make use of.

>>8638084
>The question it's about the chance of retrieve.
>Can it be done?
Yes, sure, just use gravitational traction, some rockets, maybe explosive and land it onto earth.

>>8638110
Such a shit decision not to be born into a rich family? Or being disabled?

And the hard work of spending inherited money to hire smart people to make more money for you?

And no one's going to be stealing any of your money Cletus so calm down.

We're already at a point where automation is putting humans out of work. The question is whether or not we use this technology to benefit the few or the vast majority of society.

This asteroid would create an explosion in technology, microcomputers would be far cheaper, and this amount of resources (which is worth far more than the entire world economy) could help create a post scarce society and even give us the ability to explore space

Of course, under the current system, this would bankrupt the entire world economy, putting tons of people out of work. It's why for an endeavour like this the world economy needs to be restructured based on human need. We're already having governments around the world experimenting with Basic Income to try tackle poverty and mass unemployment caused by automation and other things. While in some countries it caused a slight decrease in employment, a big cause of that is people going into higher education to gain better skills without needing to worry about providing for family

This creates far more cultural and intellectual capital and definitely will help improve society with more people becoming doctors, educators, artists, programmers and philosophers

>>8638148
There are oceans, full of water worth billions and trillions of dollars.
There is no shortage of iron and nickel.
The real shortage is cheap energy.

>>8638148
iron is already cheap as hell, labor and energy costs drive the prices up in manufacturing.

> the world economy needs to be restructured based on human need.

Do you NEED two-ply toilet paper? Do you NEED sauce on your food? Do you NEED air-conditioning on at all times?
Of course you don't.
Communists don't understand the first thing about humans: desire is infinity. Post-scarcity is impossible, as soon as we reach a point where we have abundance of something, we'll invent something else with it that increases our comfort and costs accordingly.

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>>8638135
> land it onto earth.
The asteroid is 200 km in diameter.
An asteroid 10 km in diameter wiped out the dinosaurs.

Any other bright ideas?

>>8638033
What kind of retard actually thinks this would crash the economy? Maybe if it hit earth...
All mining this would do is oversaturate the iron market by magnitudes. It would certainly crash the iron market and likely wouldnt be a financially viable space mining mission for quite some time.

>>8638214
Land it slowly

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>>8638214
Are you on the spectrum or just can't decipher irony?

>>8638108
Capitalists dont have a monopoly over violence and the creating of currency. Anyone working under a capitalist is infinitely more free than someone working under communism.
Jews controling anything other than most banks, media outlets, and the dreidel market is a meme.

>>8638033
>worth $10,000 QUADRILLION

Not if it is brought to Earth.

Anyone want to buy asteroid iron futures?

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>>8638238
>>8638239
lrn2/4chan/, kids

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g- gibs me dat

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>>8638033
START MAKIJHN THE MONEY IM GUNNA TAKE IT

If they're in it for the money, they better not import minerals from space.

Space minerals are infinity more valuable because they're in fucking space! 1kg of gold is worth $40k, but it costs $20 to put that in orbit. So 1kg of space gold is worth $60k. The second space gold lands on earth, they devalue it by 1/3 it's price.

>>8638081
I did the math on this once. Even if you redistributed from the handful of people who own 50% of the world's wealth to everyone else, their standards of living would rise only marginally. It would be a barely noticeable difference. That's how many people there are. We should be genociding the poor. If every country on Earth were as sparsely populated as Sweden, every country would be able to be as opulent as Sweden. (Although this ignores the fact that most of the wealth that comprises that top 50% comes from "economies of scale", i.e. slave driving the poor.)

>>8638458
There wouldn't be any difference at all actually. People don't change for the most part without some world shattering event happening to them normally. Extra money is just a small speed bump for how they live.

>>8638033
Going to be nice, having to spend maybe, 50 billion then you no longer need any more spending for further space development. pretty neat

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>>8638095
>If communism happened, everyone would be rich

>>8638504
What people don't understand about the very notion of communism is that Marx proposed it as an inevitable, inexorable stage of human economic history. This means both that it can't be prevented, but also that it can't be forced before its time comes.

> enormous amount of resources
leading to
> economic collapse

anyone else see something wrong with this?

>>8638511
Automation is threatening to destroy the economy, or at the very least cause an economic cataclysm, for a similar reason: we don't have enough time to adjust.

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/47-of-jobs-in-the-next-25-years-will-disappear-according-to-oxford-university

Communism always fails and it's not exactly because of lack of resources. I'd rather not get shot for thinking the system is shit and actually own the stuff I use

>>8638033
We'd find ways to waste that money pretty quickly.

>>8638033

they could just park it in orbit and then distribute it in a controlled way

and it wouldn't collapse the economy... We'd be building shit with it for hundreds of years

>>8638136
>Such a shit decision not to be born into a rich family? Or being disabled?
retards like you will be pruned.

you can get unlucky and be born a retard.

but to stay a retard willingly is a different story.

>>8638508
Marx was so full of shit he had diarrhea of the mouth. Humanity will eventually regress to a point where nothing belongs to anyone and everyone is a slave to those that control the distribution of nessisary goods? Utter garbage. Why live a life where you can never rise above your means or strive to be something more than what you were yesterday? Communism is a system designed by dictators to appease parasites.

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>>8638508
Marx wasn't a prophet

>>8638572
>>8638686
>marx was le dum
>i am smart tho

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>>8638696

Mark was a worthless, shitposting NEET

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>>8638696
I didn't say Marx was dumb. I said he cannot predict the future.

>>8638696
>Economists
>Not dumb
>Philosophers
>Not dumb
>Anything humanities related
>Not dumb
Pretty sure Marx falls in at least one of those

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>>8638562
> they could just park it in orbit
Is this more of that irony I'm supposed to decipher?

A rock with the diameter of 200 km would have the surface area of, oh, about North Carolina. Or, if you are from Europe, greater than Switzerland.

If you could somehow nudge it out of its current orbit, steering it into Earth orbit would be like ants trying to catch a runaway freight train.

The only way you could get anything at all from this is if you parked a robot miner on it, drilled off a piece, and shot it at an unpopulated section of Earth.

And what could ever go wrong with that?

>>8638731

What about making it orbit the moon?

>>8638206
Washlets would solve the toilet paper at least desu

Use the asteroid to build a base in space, then we can test all the technologies that are viable in space but are too dangerous to test on earth

>>8638454
sure m8 how much will you pay me for 50 tons of lead
I'll leave em in orbit, thats more valuable :))

>>8638044
But metal is heavy. No way in hell they are moving it back to earth. If they did, it would just fall down

>>8638044
The hell are you talking about? You can just push it towards earth with carefully detonated bombs.

>>8638696
>no arguments
>le greentxt mems:DDDDD

>>8639058
Nuclear bombs cannot into space because of the Outer Space Treaty

>>8639082
I didn't say nuclear.

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>>8638033
They should land a probe on. Like Rosetta, but with magnets instead of harpoons. But like with wheels instead of harpoons so like it drive around on the metal asteroid.

Of course the magnets would likely fuck with the science they want to do, but still ASTEROID ROVER.

They could also try to deploy an asteroid hopper like the one Hayabusa failed to eject properly

>>8639082

I'm sure if the United States wanted to they could

>>8639153
Clawed legs could work.

>>8639158
Yup. Treaties are just paper and have no hold except what we grant them. And the economic costs of pissing off the US allows them to potentially get away with much more than a faithful treaty literalist might believe.

>>8638549
yeah it sucks how money permanently disappears from the economy after somebody spends it

Meanwhile mining is literally just digging shit out of the ground, with most markets saturated
But retards think there is a market for space minerals that we don't have the capability to send a person to

>>8638033
why not "10 quintillion"
if you're going for dramatic flair why not say "a million trillion"

10,000 quadrillion dollars?
Imagine what you could do with that kind of money...fucking amazing.
Too bad this will never happen and space travel is far from becoming monopolized space mining.

>>8638741
Our moon can't have a moon of its own, earth would just swipe it like the nigger planet it is

>>8639359
>>8639351
I'm lauging too much, sorry I have to go to sleep

>>8638725
yes, let me put that part in brackets so you can be enlightened

>Economists
>Not [dumb]
>Philosophers
>Not [dumb]
>Anything humanities related
>Not [dumb]

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>>8639161
MAGNETIC WHEELS

>>8639412
Assuming there will be sufficient iron to establish a grip.

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>>8639415
Is it not a GIANT BALL OF IRON?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAn-6DNPXXo

>>8639597
It's a much safer bet to send something that can traverse the terrain regardless of how much iron is in it.

>>8639153
how about harpoons that dont work in vacuum?

>>8638033

why don't we just spend literally all of our GDP to go mine it then? If it costed 10 trillion dollars to send a rocket out there but we all get 10,000 quadrillion back then we would get 1 million times our investment. That's huge, basically we'd all be fucking millionaires, potentially billionaires. Seems like a no brainer, too bad our government is too stupid to do this, we could literally all be living like sheiks right now

>>8639621

goyim yes!

>>8638108
Dude, there's a difference between having a system in which meritocracy and hard work lead to success (free markets) and people exploiting the system and other people to reach the top unfairly.

Jews do that with no moral qualms because they are taught to do so (take advantage of the goyim) since childhood. I suggest you take a look at some of the jucier Talmud excerpts.

As for Russia, the Jews were at the heart of early bolshevism and the COMINTERN. Jews jew the goyim, no matter the place or method.

t. /pol/tard

>>8639601
Well we could send a hopper robot. There's super low gravity, but it's not entirely zero.

Pic related was going to be the first asteroid rover, but JAXA fucked that up.

MAGNETS though.

There's also this: http://www.spacecraftresearch.com/eddy/eddy_overview.html

Attract and repel the roid to move around.

Magnets are bad for this mission though, because they want to measure the magnetic field

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>>8639657

>nickel and iron

Are those even hard to mine on earth?

>>8639657
The risk that it could just "hop" off into space and drift away is too high. What we need is something that could anchor itself with one limb, swing the other forward, anchor with the forward most limb, and repeat.

How would this usher in a new era for anything? It's just iron and nickel. All that would help us do is build suspension bridges in Africa. We need rare earth metals in mass quantities to do what this proposes.

>>8639667
Why the fuck do you wanna build in Africa?

if they dont do it then why shouldnt i take it myself
karpe diem as they say in universities!!

>>8639621
Sad!

>>8638458
show math so we can btfo berniefags forever pls.

>>8638033
>if actually mined or brought back to Earth
>brought back to Earth
What a nice doomsday weapon you've delivered unto us NASA

>>8638511
yes, because people are saying that if it's harvested in its entirety by one single entity then that one entity effectively has all the money.

but it shouldn't matter, because if all of that is harvested and used then we can all be fucking rich.

>>8639058
>didn't read the article
>has no idea what asteroid is being talked about

>hurr wut da hell r u talking bout

>>8638033
>$10000 quadrillion
That's 10 quintillion just use that

>>8638040

This is /sci/. Underaged, college aged, and autistic faggots.
it's probably the most commie board on 4chan.

>Gay space communism in our time?

Unless people can eat metal, no. All this will do is flood the market with metals, which only have any value because they're rare, and make them worthless.

>>8638089
fuck off marxist scum

you have no idea how wrong you are

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God fucking damn, I can't wait for the colonial space era. All overly politicized faggots can fuck off and try their little sandbox utopias without COMPLAINING AND BITCHING ON /sci/

We'll get there someway so BE QUIET

THEN YOU CAN GO PUT A FUCKING KIBBUTZ ON THE MOON
NAZIS CAN ESTABLISH A REICH ON EUROPA

I DON'T FUCKING CARE
GET LOST

>>8638040
That kind of £££ can only result in Space Thatcherism, anon

>>8638033
It'd collapse the economy alright. We'd all be free to do whatever the fuck we want to with a living wage to boot.

>>8638444

Who the fuck took that picture?

>>8640942
Robit is 3D model composited into the real photograph.

http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/specialEffects/opportunity/index.html

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>>8639657
Magnets are bad because the surface won't be nice and clean or smooth. You'll end up with tons of dust and pebbles attached to the wheels.

There's so little gravity that hopping around is a terrible idea.

>>8639666
Drill feet. Won't last all that long due to becoming dull after a while. Maybe use some sort of overlarge pad with micro hooks on it. Like a fly's foot.

>>8640903
It won't happen in your lifetime.

>>8638081
I'll take iron rule of oligarchy for $600 alex.

>>8638081
>utopia

Your level of happiness does not increase with the increase of wealth nor with the leveling of wealth among the populace.

This might be the first time we get to see the former core of a planet in person and all you people can think about is blowing it up for money.
Some scientists you are.

>>8638504
Not the same anon but if you can literally make as much of anything you want Star Trek style then yes.

Communism failed because this isn't the super future where we can molecularly assemble nuclear material out if human shit.

>>8641052
Actually, let me rephrase that

If jack everyman can make as much of anything he wants communism and anarchy have both become one and the same. It's both, except there is no free market because there is no scarcity to govern the market.

>>8640977
A smaller wealth gap is correlated with increased happiness overall. Up to a certain point anyway. People aren't happy under communism, but countries that adopt some socialist values (and have a small wealth gap) tend to be the happiest.

>>8639666
>>8640954
Gravity is about 0.11 m/s^2 and escape velocity is 159 m/s. A human would have a hard time hopping with enough speed to escape.

>> won't be nice and clean
We don't know for sure. Shear faces might be clean though.
>> drill feet
And how do you get the reaction force to drill? Also, good luck drilling into solid metal. There is a chance the layer of regolith coating the asteroid could be very thin.

>>8640989

It's a failed planet. It's literally a planetlet.

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I thought nasa was shut down?

>>8641542
never trust libtard bullshit

>>8638081

Go and live in a commune, you hippy faggot.

That's the only communism that'll ever exist.

>>8641083
> but countries that adopt some socialist values (and have a small wealth gap) tend to be the happiest.
Right, because living in a country where you can't stop shitskins from running a child prostitution ring because "that would be racist" makes people so happy.

This is what liberals actually believe.

>>8638044

We're pathetic.

This should be within our capabilities now.

>>8641560
uh from what is true and we know nasa was shut down. do you know where your at or what your doing? whats supposed to be the bullshit? that were going to with nasa to a space rock?

>>8638033
>collapse the economy
I thought It was doing a good job on its own

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>>8641568

>>8641568

Liberals conveniently ignore that all the successful socialist countries they love to cite as examples of how socialism is totally awesome are small white countries while the nonwhite socialist countries are dystopian hellholes. They have to eat rats in Bernie's paradise of Venezuela but surprise surprise you never hear that location used as an example for the wonders of socialism.

>>8638458
second this >>8639739

>>8638033
>10,000 QUADRILLION
Why not say 10 Quintillion?

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>>8641595

>>8641601

Which hits us with that nice hard fact people will hate:

It's race that determines success of a system

All systems can work if the people are capable of utilizing it

And we're now at the crossroads where we expect all races to be equal, and that sadly leads to disastrous results. O well.

>>8638033
>ppl here are discussing about some financial shit like little kids and insult each other
>there is NO fucking way to even mine that metal ball

>>8641838

Notice how no one ever complains about how their race and gender is inferior?

Not 1 time I have seen that happen in my entire life.

Must be coincidence though! *shrugs

>>8641856
Really? You've never seen a black person complain about how shitty black people are? Or a woman complain that women are terrible and stupid and boring?

>>8641856
Well fuck, now I'm mad that I'm inferior

To Asians

>>8638094

>tfw I might live in a Space Ancap utopia

[spoiler] I would actually like living like that [/spoiler]

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>use satellites and use gravity to pull it into orbit around earth
>start landing mining drones on it
>start space bridge to get and return materials
ez

>>8640954
>It won't happen in your lifetime

Then have children, you fucking hic et nunc queer

>>8638033
>$10,000 quadrillion
You mean $10 quintillion?
>it'd collapse the economy
This article doesn't talk about that, and it's actually retarded, since there isn't enough demand for iron for it to actually be worth $10 quintillion. The only thing that could collapse the ecomony is an asteroid made of rare elements like gold or platinum.

>>8638084
It's diameter is like 186km, so you can't land it on Earth to then mine all the shit (which seems like the easiest option in general). You could also mine it in space, but I'm not sure if that would be economically viable, since it's not like we have an iron shortage, and creating low-g mining equipment and then transporting it into space would probably cost a fuckton. Depending on it's orbit, you could maybe crash it into the moon (the moon is a couple thousand times heavier so it probably wouldn't affect it's orbit that much). That could still lead to problems though, like a large chunk of the meteor being ejected from the moon's orbit, and hitting Earth.

>>8641973
That would just collapse the value of gold or platinum. The human race wouldn't suddenly stop functioning and fucking wither up and die because we found a bunch of gold, the economy adapts to the current conditions. Everything's worth what people will pay for it

>>8638033
I don't trust nasa to do anything of worth anymore. They're like politicians now. All talk no action.

>>8641979
It would be more like a one time investment in space infrastructure. Once they have a chain of production up in space they'd be able to use the asteroid resources to build whatever they want in space, immensely cheaper than building things on earth and sending them up. At first they'd still need lots of components constructed on earth, but even just not needing to send up the heavy metal frameworks would reduce the cost of space missions immensely, and they could begin exploiting other asteroids with other resources, eventually being able to forego earth made components altogether and then we can just sieg zeon all day long

>>8641980
I said "could", not that it definitely would. The reason I chose gold as an example is that gold reserves would probably be devalued, and it would have a negative effect on the economy over the short term. And yeah I just whacked in platinum too as an example, although it would have far fewer negative consequences. Also I'm not saying we shouldn't mine such useful metals if we had the chance to do so, just because our economy would be negatively affected for a short period.

>>8641989
i kow rigt?

communists derailed the thread

The asteroid will have to be mined and distributed in limited amounts as to keep the demand and the value steady, as to not just dissolve into some le gommunist utopia

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>>8641856

>>8638110
People like you are why I practice at the shooting range daily d/w

>>8638033
>NASA planning to explore
>NASA
>planning to explore

>planning
>explore

If you take 4+ words out of this headline it becomes more accurate

>it'd collapse the economy, but this could spark a massive new renaissance
>it would collapse the economy
>it COULD spark a massive renaissance
>causing a market crash in hopes of creating a better market
>not counterproductive

I mean you just explained how you recognized this was a pipe dream

>>8643757
>>not counterproductive
Causing a market crash does sound counterproductive if you conveniently forget to mention that we'd have access to a lot more resources at the price of a market crash. Now of course OP is still stupid for thinking that the only thing needed for communism to work is 20 quadrillion metric tons of iron and some nickel.

>>8638110
>FYIGM
cool story

>>8638033
It is not worth that much. They are assuming we can extract 100% of the rare earth metals, that that process doesn't cost anything, and that transporting it doesn't cost anything.

Also, space mining will NEVER work. That asteroid is mostly iron-nickel alloy, and trying to separate elements out of an alloy, especially an iron alloy, is extremely expensive and uses a lot of energy. On earth we find rare earths concentrated by geological processes. For this reason, it will ALWAYS be cheaper to mine things on earth.

Asteroid mining will always be a meme.

>>8638059
This. It's like saying there's a trillion dollars worth of hydrogen above my house. The cost of mining asteroids is what's important.

>>8644130
:(
I wanted to get into the space field because of that

>>8641838
Like Belarus, Poland and Czech?

>>8638110
You assume it was hard work that fave you the advantage while in reality it's not.

>>8638033
NASA should drop this asteroid on communists

It would fix more problems than the minerals inside it would

>>8644512

We are everywhere and we are the future. Deal with it.
protip; social democracy is on the rise despite what tard has been elected in the the white house until his impeachment.

>>8644130
>it will ALWAYS be cheaper to mine things on earth.
Thats a foolish thing to say, certainly might be true without our lifetimes but if you are already in space, then mining shit out there is more cost effective than shipping from earth

>>8638033
How would this be 10,000 quadrillion?

If the supply is so large it would cheapen its value to accommodate for it.

Rare resources are expensive. Common resources are not.

>>8638033
Why bring it to Earth? Use it to construct things in space.

>>8638033

Are we going to have space hillbillies?

> time to get my pickaxe and space suit

And then maybe it will become new California?

> one intergalactic Kale smoothie please

>>8644498
liberal shitstains get out

>>8644799
> t. Republican inventor who invented autism curing bleach.

>>8640295
he's meming, chill dude

>>8638033
Posting shit like this should be bannable. NASA isn't gonna do shit just like they didn't do shit for decades now. It's a dead organization and their only business is getting ad revenue from garbage click bait articles like this. Fuck you.

>>8638206
>humans: desire is infinity.
>This is what retards actually believe
Tell me a single desire that you believe to be inifnite, and I'll tell you why you're wrong.
>Food and water
Literally a hard limit to how much a human can eat and drink before killing themselves. 99% of humans lose the instinctual desire to eat far before even reaching that point.
>Sex
What are refractory periods?
>Entertainment
There's only so much a human mind can even comprehend . The human mind isn't magic. Dopamine receptors can burn out. As all addicts know, you need more and more to get the same high as before. But that doesn't mean the desire is infinite either.

Even in the worst case, the processing power of the human brain is a hard limit on desires. You can't want or desire something when your brain can't even commit enough computing power to desire it.

Another retard who thinks "I can't comprehend this large number" is the same as that number being infinite.

>>8638110
>believing everyone shouldn't be equal

Good argument you put together for a shit premise.

>>8644757
I want to make a massive construct that connects the entire main belt and use it as a platform to launch inter-galactic probes.

>>8645153
reality is no one is actually equal. If we were we'd all look the same, think the same, hear the same, and perceive the same.

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>>8645153

>believing in equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity

>>8645194
>people not understanding the concept

Whenever people say this, they are insinuating that everybody should be treated equally, not that they are equal.