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FWIW, one of the executives working on seafloor mining claims that they'll only suck up a limited pattern of manganese nodules from the seafloor and leave the r
by nradov 3mo ago
FWIW, one of the executives working on seafloor mining claims that they'll only suck up a limited pattern of manganese nodules from the seafloor and leave the rest undisturbed. If we're going to have an industrial economy then we do need the metals and extracting them will inevitably cause some environmental impact whether that's on land or under the ocean.
https://music.youtube.com/podcast/2zrIilw-87k https://music.youtube.com/podcast/2zrIilw-87k
- ceejayoz 3mo agoYeah, sure, and tobacco execs claimed cigarettes didn't cause lung cancer.
- nradov 3mo agoWe don't need cigarettes but metals are a necessity. How would you prefer we get them?
- Keyframe 3mo agoAsteroids mining!
- doodlebugging 3mo ago>Asteroids Every time I see this I am taken back to a time when you could walk into a convenience store and drop a quarter into a machine and blast asteroids to smithereens until you made one last mistake and hard to drop another quarter. Thanks!
- ceejayoz 3mo agoDo we not have these metals now, before we've done a single bit of seafloor mining?