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.
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.
it is only worth that much because we don’t have it here
if we had it, the value would go down so much it would e worth almost nothing if the elements in it were as common as its presence here would make it
unless one person caught it and kept it for themselves
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.
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.
Trap it in orbit. Break off manageable chunks and fling them towards the pacific or designated LZ in Nevada or something.