But yeah you are right. Stupid article. These things are usually iron and nickel rich metal. The price of nickel would drop pretty fast if a few billion tons of it hit the market.
Even if it was 100% gold. Hell, especially if it was 100% gold. At that point the cheapest and best wiring would be gold and no one would be building houses with copper wire again
Damn. Really? This whole time I thought it was so loved because of it's conductivity. Isn't it used in CPUs? Is that again because of the lack of corrosion? I could see having something not build up like that would be better than the conductivity improvements.
Gold can be drawn into extremely fine wire. That allows for a high connection density between the actual chip and the carrier. Its self-welding properties allow those connections to be made with minimal heat.
It also discounts the cost of GETTING it all here. The cheapest way to get it here would literally be a few billion tons of it hitting the market, at which point the price of nickel would literally be nonexistant because anything that survives the event would lack the concept of what "price" and "Nickel" is.
If we decide to bring it down SAFELY, well, imagine all the fuel cost for safe re-entry. Water Landings would be out of the question, what with Nickel sinking, and then we'd need to build submarine mining solutions...
Sadly, where we are right now, all that Space Wealth is actually totally worthless Space Crap. Space Crap of NEGATIVE worth, what with the cost of having to build systems capable of receiving it. Without a Space Elevator to launch mining operations from, we'd never even be able to break even.
This is what I call an "Interesting" article. In that I read it and go, "Hey, that's an interesting thing," and then return to reality. Because it's exactly as interesting, and real in the sense of changing our world, as an article about the Leprechaun who won the Unicorn Race by riding on a Boxing Kangaroo.
This is one of things I loved most about Trump. He was leading the development of space travel and allowing private companies like spaceX to lead the charge in R&D to work hand in hand with NASA.
Now Biden will scrub all of it to make sure gender re-assignment surgeries are safe and free for Pakistan.
Manageable chunks would still either burn up in re-entry or slam into the ground with the kind of impacts that we'd be causing a lot of destruction with. In the water, we'd get Tsunami. On the land, we'd be making craters and burying the stuff we just dropped, necessitating mining them again, this time from the earth. During which point we can't drop any more, what with people in the LZ digging up the previous drop.
Debeers could handle the marketing.
But yeah you are right. Stupid article. These things are usually iron and nickel rich metal. The price of nickel would drop pretty fast if a few billion tons of it hit the market.
Even if it was 100% gold. Hell, especially if it was 100% gold. At that point the cheapest and best wiring would be gold and no one would be building houses with copper wire again
electrical conductivity of gold is 70% of copper. gold is plated on electronics to prevent corrosion
Damn. Really? This whole time I thought it was so loved because of it's conductivity. Isn't it used in CPUs? Is that again because of the lack of corrosion? I could see having something not build up like that would be better than the conductivity improvements.
Gold can be drawn into extremely fine wire. That allows for a high connection density between the actual chip and the carrier. Its self-welding properties allow those connections to be made with minimal heat.
I believe silver is more conductive than copper, but it struggles with oxidation too. The best wire would be gold coated silver.
We would all have gold hollow points then.
shhh. smoothbrains. don't hurt their fee fees
Nah. Dude's cool. I never knew that and happy I was corrected.
saying that is the equivalent of a caveman calling you a smooth brain because you cant knapp flint rocks
This really makes me want to play some space engineers or elite dangerous again.
Have a look at starsector it's like mount and blade in space 😁
It also discounts the cost of GETTING it all here. The cheapest way to get it here would literally be a few billion tons of it hitting the market, at which point the price of nickel would literally be nonexistant because anything that survives the event would lack the concept of what "price" and "Nickel" is.
If we decide to bring it down SAFELY, well, imagine all the fuel cost for safe re-entry. Water Landings would be out of the question, what with Nickel sinking, and then we'd need to build submarine mining solutions...
Sadly, where we are right now, all that Space Wealth is actually totally worthless Space Crap. Space Crap of NEGATIVE worth, what with the cost of having to build systems capable of receiving it. Without a Space Elevator to launch mining operations from, we'd never even be able to break even.
This is what I call an "Interesting" article. In that I read it and go, "Hey, that's an interesting thing," and then return to reality. Because it's exactly as interesting, and real in the sense of changing our world, as an article about the Leprechaun who won the Unicorn Race by riding on a Boxing Kangaroo.
This is one of things I loved most about Trump. He was leading the development of space travel and allowing private companies like spaceX to lead the charge in R&D to work hand in hand with NASA.
Now Biden will scrub all of it to make sure gender re-assignment surgeries are safe and free for Pakistan.
Trap it in orbit. Break off manageable chunks and fling them towards the pacific or designated LZ in Nevada or something.
Manageable chunks would still either burn up in re-entry or slam into the ground with the kind of impacts that we'd be causing a lot of destruction with. In the water, we'd get Tsunami. On the land, we'd be making craters and burying the stuff we just dropped, necessitating mining them again, this time from the earth. During which point we can't drop any more, what with people in the LZ digging up the previous drop.