Question - what's stopping Elon Musk from building a spaceship to mine an asteroid?

[Wilson23]

Palladium is a big mineral that we need. Plus, we need to find new exotic material to help build a space elevator

Is there palladium on the Moon?

 

[SebastianHolt]

Interesting the racist magat OP deemed a black presenting poster (I don't believe the poster is a black woman, likely another bored white male getting his sexual interracial kicks on by cosplaying as a black woman) a welfare recipient.

The irony, the biggest welfare queen is Musk. Just more waste of funds from that immigrant (the words you magats use for others).

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https://forum.literotica.com/threads/fuck-you-pb-im-baaack-.1649627/page-7#post-102362911

You are an idiot. No wonder you live paycheck to paycheck. Find a junior college and take a math and business classes

So the government has given tax dollars to Musk. I believe the bulk went to SpaceX. This is a good thing.

 

[SebastianHolt]

Is there palladium on the Moon?

yes, but it would take a very long time to get all countries on earth to approve mining on the moon

 

[ll74]

YES and other materials.

I am discussing palladium.

Where is palladium mined?

Right now, the plan is to build nanotubes out of carbon for a space elevator, but that is costly, will tax our current production levels, and might be too heavy. We need new, more exotic materials that are not found on earth

Who's plan?

 

[LLCox]

If he had no government funding for this mission or for building the spaceship, then all the profit should be his, right?

If someone told him there was a silver asteroid he'd be there tomorrow.

 

[SebastianHolt]

I am discussing palladium.

Where is palladium mined?


Who's plan?

Russia, South Africa but China purchases those minerals rights (I believe)

 

[SebastianHolt]

If someone told him there was a silver asteroid he'd be there tomorrow.

There is, and enough to crash the worlds economy 10 fold

 

[Baztrachian]

Question - what's stopping Elon Musk from building a spaceship to mine an asteroid?​

Economics. See, the real value of minerals mined from asteroids is that they're already in space. The expense of lifting them into space is wholly negated.

The issue for now is there is no market for these minerals that is also in space. At which point there is then the TV show "The Expanse" will start to resemble a documentary.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Would you knock that shit off! Stay focused as this thread isn't the place for that fantasy of yours. Please stay on topic

The topic is your president is a pedophile and you are fine with it you shit sniffing fag lord.

 

[ll74]

Russia, South Africa but China purchases those minerals rights (I believe)

Ok. So not Venezuela and Ukraine.

Interesting if true.

 

[Wilson23]

If someone told him there was a silver asteroid he'd be there tomorrow.

Would even silver be enough to pay for the spaceship and all?

 

[Wilson23]

The topic is your president is a pedophile and you are fine with it you shit sniffing fag lord.

*shrug* Short of assassination there's nothing we can do -- even after the midterms, impeachment and removal will be politically impossible. It's up to Vance and the Cabinet to use the 25th Amendment.

 

[Rightguide]

If he had no government funding for this mission or for building the spaceship, then all the profit should be his, right?

Looks like Elon has shelved his Mars ambitions, and for good reason. Even with today’s technology, a manned trip to Mars would essentially be a one-way mission, a near-certain death sentence. The logistical hurdles alone are staggering: launch windows occur only every 26 months, resupply or emergency rescue is virtually impossible, and sustaining life on the Martian surface presents severe physical challenges, from radiation exposure to near-zero atmospheric pressure, extreme cold, and the long-term effects of low gravity on the human body. Honestly, it’s hard to see how a safe round-trip could be feasible even in the next decade. Check this 8 minute video out for a more detailed assessment of the problems involved:

 

[RoryN]

Looks like Elon has shelved his Mars ambitions, and for good reason.

You should be embarrassed, and for good reason:

I have never stated my race.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...rk-ages-of-a-theorcracy.1569357/post-95402961

You don't know my race, so shut up about it. Because your a racist, you assume I'm white. I've never declared my race.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/now-that-parents-are-up-in-arms.1547419/post-93921121

I've never stated my race on Lit. It's laughable what you assholes assume without evidence.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...-file-on-oliver-anthony.1594165/post-97464305

I've never expressed my race here on Lit, ever.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...airman-of-joint-chiefs.1628719/post-100539669

************

I am white.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...as-a-true-racist-leader.1401553/post-83880025

Oh, and I'm white not black. Sorry.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...luke_atmydik-2-years-ago.696017/post-89867509

Yes, I'm, white, and I'm pro American, if that makes me a white nationalist, then make the most of it you cowardly sissy.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...id-for-by-the-tax-payer.1508623/post-91233408

 

[SebastianHolt]

Ok. So not Venezuela and Ukraine.

Interesting if true.

correct

 

[SebastianHolt]

Looks like Elon has shelved his Mars ambitions, and for good reason. Even with today’s technology, a manned trip to Mars would essentially be a one-way mission, a near-certain death sentence. The logistical hurdles alone are staggering: launch windows occur only every 26 months, resupply or emergency rescue is virtually impossible, and sustaining life on the Martian surface presents severe physical challenges, from radiation exposure to near-zero atmospheric pressure, extreme cold, and the long-term effects of low gravity on the human body. Honestly, it’s hard to see how a safe round-trip could be feasible even in the next decade. Check this 8 minute video out for a more detailed assessment of the problems involved:

Everyone used to think that light traveled in a straight line ... However, light can be bent by gravity. Once humans grasp this concept, we can think of new ways to travel in space, pinching time and using warp drive. This way, a trip to Mars will take seconds vs a hundred years

 

[ll74]

correct

So why do we gVe security interests in Ukraine and Venezuela?

 

[Rightguide]

Everyone used to think that light traveled in a straight line ... However, light can be bent by gravity. Once humans grasp this concept, we can think of new ways to travel in space, pinching time and using warp drive. This way, a trip to Mars will take seconds vs a hundred years

That’s a fun thought experiment, but we’re a long way from warp drives. Sure, gravity can bend light, and general relativity lets massive objects warp spacetime, but turning that into a “seconds-long trip to Mars” isn’t just a technology problem; it’s physics as we currently understand it. We’d need energy on a scale that makes the Sun look like a nightlight and materials that don’t exist. Until then, Mars is still a multi-month slog through radiation, microgravity, and life-support logistics, and the physical limitations of the human body.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Everyone used to think that light traveled in a straight line ... However, light can be bent by gravity. Once humans grasp this concept, we can think of new ways to travel in space, pinching time and using warp drive. This way, a trip to Mars will take seconds vs a hundred years

John Carter was able to travel back and forth to Barsoom with psychic teleportation over a century ago. We should spend more money perfecting that technology rather than wasting money on obsolete rockets.

 

[SebastianHolt]

John Carter was able to travel back and forth to Barsoom with psychic teleportation over a century ago. We should spend more money perfecting that technology rather than wasting money on obsolete rockets.

that will work if we were writing a movie script

 

[LLCox]

Would even silver be enough to pay for the spaceship and all?

Silver is being used faster than it can be taken out of the ground. The price of silver is going to the moon shortly. Musk has already slowed down production of his cars. I bought silver bullion at $26. It now fluctuates between $72/$85 dollars an ounce. It has been as high as $120. .OZ before being shorted by banks and hedge funds trying to save their asses. Their failure is inevitable.

 

[AlexBailey]

Material from captured asteroids would not need to be brought to the ground to be marketed.


Musk and others have proposed building server farms in orbit, powered by unobstructed solar panels, mostly built by automation.

Still sci-fi but not for long.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Material from captured asteroids would not need to be brought to the ground to be marketed.


Musk and others have proposed building server farms in orbit, powered by unobstructed solar panels, mostly built by automation.

Still sci-fi but not for long.

Musk also proposed building the Hyperloop. The guy isn’t known for his engineering savvy.

 

[Wilson23]

that will work if we were writing a movie script

Maybe Musk should branch out.

 

[Wilson23]

The problem is we have to get to a point where there's a self-sustaining human population in space -- but who wants to live in a can, and raise their children in a can? No one will do it for something as abstract as "racial survival" or even "scientific exploration" -- there have to be ways to make money, and they have to be ways that cannot be automated.