An off world topic as silly,far fetched idea as may be the interest and articles keep coming and im interested in others perspective please. Is it feasible in years to come? Would they even do it, considering the effect on precious metals and the economy at large...is it simply pie in the sky? Or is the moon really made of cheese? Cheers
The question I'd be asking is why have they not already done it? It's not money. It's not technology. Maybe it's because they can't and never will.
Few threads on such (mostly asteroid) over the years, might be some info there too https://www.silverstackers.com/forums/index.php?threads/asteroid-mining.49177/#post-635292 https://www.silverstackers.com/forums/index.php?threads/the-future-of-mining.25696/#post-343477
Simple, we have no ability to do it. NASA and SpaceX is having a hard enough time just trying to replicate what was done in the 1960s.
I humbly disagree. Surely with today's advanced technology and AI, they could now replicate a more convincing and believable moon landing fake film than they did in the 1960s.
If extremely high grade, rare earth and precious metal bodies were found at scale, along with advanced use cases that would be theoretically possible with available resources... (i.e: palladium and platinum to satisfy hydrogen based tech ( + storage vessels at scale) + rhodium platinum gold thermocouples + silver wiring for fusion energy to convert to hydrogen fuel storage cells... then WHY NOT? sourcing sufficent materials from space for energy dence power backups for the earth (in case of another carington event, where lithium ion batteries may explode and powerlines shoot lightning into the sky... Id bet on it, but it would be something a bit special like... the pyramids... or the LHC... if successfull... it would probibly be destroyed in not too long for the materials for further future purposes... think tokamak or iter based fusion reactors with manahatin project volumes of silver and other precious resources if they were suitably available... huge efficent thermocouple based fusion power replacing steam turbines. quantum computers pushing hundreds of millions of qubits running the show... 100 million degrees will push engineering limits. cant imagine abuntant titanuim or other strategic materials not being sourced from space at some stage. if were looking at doing anything sustainable (for the time period of 10s of thousands of years ) between earth and the moon.. in terms of terraformation... and successfull spacial collonisation. then we are going to mine in space...
