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I wonder if all of the challenges you've just listed aren't what makes this an attractive problem for highly speculative investment. The rock has value, but sol
by KevinEldon 14y ago
I wonder if all of the challenges you've just listed aren't what makes this an attractive problem for highly speculative investment. The rock has value, but solving the problems of economically acquiring, transporting, and selling the materials will produce innovations that can be applied in more mundane terrestrial businesses. You may never mine the rock but you might end up with stronger and lighter materials, more efficient fuel, automated manufacturing, automated transportation, or even just economic models for maximizing profits when you have enough supply of a resource to devalue an entire market.
If using Python used to be a way for entrepreneurs to find top programmers, perhaps being conversant in some or part of this kind of space problem is a way for entrepreneurs and investors to find people with breakthrough ideas.
- nollidge 14y agoSo basically Planetary Resources may be the next NASA, in terms of spurring all sorts of innovation.
- e40 14y agoInteresting idea. Think of the disaster scenario where they miss the moon and the thing is caught in the earth's gravity well. That would be horrific.
- laconian 14y agoI think it would get burned up on reentry.
- kbolino 14y agoI don't think so. 3554 Amun [1] Estimated Diameter = 2500 m Estimated Mass = 16,000,000,000,000 kg For comparison, International Space Station [2] Longest Dimension = 109 m Mass = 450,000 kg [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3554_Amun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3554_Amun [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
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