Once private companies start mining the moon the price of silver & gold is likely to drop dramatically. Is anyone else worried about this?
So much for the saying "silver price is going to the moon", if the moon is going to push the price back down.
We'll just drag the moon closer to Earth in order to shorten the distance, which will cut transportation costs dramatically..
'Today, it costs $10,000 to put a pound of payload in Earth orbit' http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/astp.html_prt.htm
Obviously we'll first use the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator to break it up into smaller bits first.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z40AsPaktzw [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z40AsPaktzw[/youtube]
Asteroid mining is the way to go. Send out an autonomous tug, deploy a lightsail and eventually you should be able to get it within a reasonable distance of Earth for economical resource extraction.
I had no idea about this. Thanks for brining awareness. I always wondered why we never excavated the moon before.
This is it. It would be ridiculously expensive even though it is technically feasible. The Apollo program was costing more than 4% of the entire U.S. federal budget by the mid 60s, and that was just to get 12 people onto the Moon and a few others into Lunar orbit. These days you might be able to do it with robotics, but it's still going to be incredibly expensive.
but the mining rights have already been sold, this might all end up in court then http://www.lunarland.com/
It be worse then skyrocket prices! Don't know about the cost of returning something from the moon but we know how much it costs to get something just into Earth's orbit - "Today, it costs $10,000 to put a pound of payload in Earth orbit. NASA's goal is to reduce the cost of getting to space to hundreds of dollars per pound within 25 years and tens of dollars per pound within 40 years." http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/astp.html_prt.htm That is just getting something in one way trip into Earth's orbit. I take it that means in my lifetime I will NOT have to worry about Moon mining devaluing my stack.
No need to be in a rush you will have around a 100 years to do your research before the first yard of moon dirt is dozed up,and if the US epa gets involved make that 200 years or never.
