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the ability to mine the moon or asteroid belt seems extremely lucrative, the logistics of transporting materials to earth costs less than shipping them across t
by stainablesteel 6mo ago
the ability to mine the moon or asteroid belt seems extremely lucrative, the logistics of transporting materials to earth costs less than shipping them across the ocean, an astounding level of value creation.
- xuki 6mo agoThere is no other mode of transportation cheaper than shipping across the ocean.
- andai 6mo agoThat one is subsidized by externalizing costs to our lungs.
- sroussey 6mo agoSo is pace travel. Then rockets are not green!
- kibwen 6mo agoShipping on water has been, by far, the cheapest mode of long-distance shipping since the moment boats were invented. That is to say, since thousands of years before boats were ever powered by the shit that destroys our lungs.
- stainablesteel 6mo agolaunching things via a mass driver from the moon to the earth requires a lot less fuel, is faster, and cheaper than shipping across the ocean
- tverbeure 6mo agoThis can’t a serious comment. Did you notice the size of the Artemis rocket and the size of the payload it sends to the moon and back? Do you expect there to be diamonds just laying these on the moon surface, no mining required.
- stainablesteel 6mo agoyou don't have to ship things the moon, you just build a mass driver on the moon that sends things to earth. it doesn't need to yield diamonds, this would be lucrative with just fresh water
- AngryData 6mo agoIt is valuable if they can find the right rocks and bring them back. A platinum group metal asteroid would be of immense value, at least the first one anyways. After that who knows, they might super saturate the global market for decades.
- stainablesteel 6mo agoour use of platinum has been limited by its scarcity, having tons of it would completely change the things we could build. saturation isn't a real downstream effect of economics, it would instead be transformative