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.
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.