Breaking news!!! NASA's Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered the rover to the ground in the "sky crane" maneuver when the spacecraft sensed touchdown. Geological tests just received have discovered that the surface of the red planet actually consists of toned silver, in dust and solid form. Whilst sulphide gasses have been... read more>>>
How did 'they' assemble the Int. Space Station? Doing so bit by bit. All it takes is to have a massive cargo ship to travel back and forth, but never enters any atmosphere. Then having wee ankle biters going up and down to load and unload the Cargo Ship. They could, if they wanted to, transport or haul behind a 'prime mover' 100 million metric tonnes at a time. However, to be cost effective they must first build a massive ship, and this alone is many years away (unless they already started to do so in anticipation/expectation many years ago). And to successfully mine (whether explosive or not) that quantity takes a long time. I imagine something like 50 times bigger than the largest vehicle ever to be fabricated for the cargo ship. Re: topic Don't panic, that is still many years away before first shipment. I don't doubt the possibility us already depleting silver reserves on Earth by then.
ALL silver on earth would be gone (except mine) well before they attempted mining silver on mars. The initial investment in space mining equipment would be so staggering it would dwarf anything mankind / NASA has done so far.
^^^Yep. So, hopefully we will all become slaves by then. It's the only way to keep cost down!!!!!!!!!!11111111111
There will always be Silver on other planets but seriously the Mines here on Earth right now are going broke because the Silver price is too low and they are loosing money pulling it out the ground at our doorstep let alone freighting it through space.
False. I remember silver below $9. Plenty of jewellers buying. If your statement is true, then there would be no silver coming out of the ground now, as they would of packed up a long time ago, and setting back up is time consuming. Most silver is produced from byproduct of copper mining. Cost of mining differs in each nation. Labour, sourcing machinery and transport logistic all differ. Cheaper to exploit Africa than to mine in USA or Australia. You are still thinking small. You are also not taking into consideration humans inhabiting earth, and you can not blow up a neighbourhood without a riot. However, you can blow up Mars without a riot. Even Greenpeace would have front row seats watching the fireworks on Mars. Thanks, but no thanks. I got plenty of my own nutz. .
If it cost 2.5 billion dollars to land a few experiments on Mars it is going to cost a trillion dollars to land something more substantial and get it back to Earth so I am not losing sleep even if Mars was made of silver. In another finding I vaguely recall reading about a planet that might be solid diamond. Trouble is it will take hundreds of thousands of years to even get close so not in my family lifetime.
I thought mining in space would be easy I mean if Ben Affleck can do it on a moving rock the average human should be able to do it on Mars with their eyes closed
Excellent - then the shiny chunks of coal that i have at home i'll just stash away for my grandkids grandkids... Thanks for the tip Ladybird
you mean this 3 things were for real :lol: its seen from boyhood novel/magazine cut out page. if there were three headed lions, these are most likely three headed spots lights. (with bulb) :|
So I'm thinking something like that bloke who sold real estate on the moon might be the go. Can we sell paper mars silver? Pay me spot and It can stay safely on Mars I wouldn't even charge a safe storage fee. There would be a substantial fee for physical delivery tho (and a clause in the contract stating I can supply you from alternative supplies but delivery premium still applies)
