[quote]The minerals were found at depths of 3,500 to 6,000 metres (11,500-20,000 ft) below the ocean surface.[/quote]
Damn.... that's a long way down.
Even more reason to invest in deep-sea exploration
Fuck space, get to the bottom of the sea first.
What's the use exploring other planets when we haven't even finished exploring ours.
Makes me wonder what's in the inner and outer crust.
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and the core.
[QUOTE=Pruneyman;30888411]Fuck space, get to the bottom of the sea first.
What's the use exploring other planets when we haven't even finished exploring ours.[/QUOTE]
because of the intense pressure that is under the water and at those depths. The cost of that excavation probably cost millions or billions of dollars and it is very risky.
Rare earts are found together with radioactive elements.
10 buxx they will fuck up the ocean just like they did with the chinese mines.
Why not just mine rare earths from asteroids? One way or another theyre going to have to do it soon, they should just stop putting it off.
[QUOTE=cathal6606;30891598]Why not just mine rare earths from asteroids? One way or another theyre going to have to do it soon, they should just stop putting it off.[/QUOTE]
"just"?
[QUOTE=smurfy;30891638]"just"?[/QUOTE]
Too much EVE, I guess.
[QUOTE=Codename 47;30891733]Too much EVE, I guess.[/QUOTE]
It's not impossible, and if we want to stick around long term we'll have to get to it.
However, we need a lot more infrastructure in space before anyone can even begin to attempt it.
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