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>We have everything we need Speak for yourself. If this company reduces the price of iridium, makes PET and CT scanners cheaper, helps more people get scans, a
by derektank 2y ago
>We have everything we need
Speak for yourself. If this company reduces the price of iridium, makes PET and CT scanners cheaper, helps more people get scans, and ultinately results in more cases of cancer and heart disease identified sooner and people leading healthier lives, then I need this company.
- adrian_b 2y agoThere is absolutely no chance for this company to reduce the price of iridium before you die. For now, even the cost per kilogram of a payload launched in an Earth orbit is greater than the price of iridium. The cost of the energy for the round-trip to an asteroid per kilogram of brought back substance would be much greater. Even this transportation cost would be dwarfed by the cost of the energy and of the chemical reactants needed to extract on the surface of an asteroid one kilogram of iridium from a thousand tons of ore, which would normally consist of iron-nickel-cobalt alloy, which is very hard to process, either mechanically or thermally.