[QUOTE=SuddenImpact;43535199]I am more thinking how valuable it is to mine asteroids in terms of transportation. Bring something into orbit costs about 15000 dollars/kg. The thing that will be mining asteroids will be very heavy, considering it needs multiple drill heads which all degrade over time, the massive amounts of fuel to get to the asteroids, and then you also need some spacetruck to get that stuff back to us.[/QUOTE]
It's one of those things that has a VERY high initial investment but will be considerably cheaper to operate than to get started, and with any luck will pay for itself in time.
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;43536070]It's one of those things that has a VERY high initial investment but will be considerably cheaper to operate than to get started, and with any luck will pay for itself in time.[/QUOTE]
As long as it is cheaper to get resources from the earth, there won´t be much incentive to take the long way to the asteroid belt.
[QUOTE=SuddenImpact;43537023]As long as it is cheaper to get resources from the earth, there won´t be much incentive to take the long way to the asteroid belt.[/QUOTE]
This much is obvious. But we can't exploit this world forever.
[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;43533004]I imagine a century or so we'll all be breathing, eating, and fabricating nanomachines every square inch of the planet, so resources won't by a problem!*
*Based on personal thesis that nanobots solve every problem ever.[/QUOTE]
okay, kojima
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43534207]Won't that require a lot of acceleration to mimic Earth's gravity?[/QUOTE]
If you're travelling between star systems, or even just out of our solar system you need a lot of acceleration anyway if you don't want the crew to die of old age. It probably wouldn't be Earth-like gravity, but some gravity is better than spending years in 0G environments while your muscles atrophy.
Were sitting on top of a swirling ocean of molten rock, its the second largest energy source we know of in our solar system, DIG DOWN YOU FUCKS
If that was the case, why do I have lots of Isk?
[QUOTE=yannickgd;43532974]Artificial gravity?[/QUOTE]
Assuming you could somehow withstand the surface of a neutron star, which is something like a million degrees kelvin, and magically could place a teaspoonof neutron star matter (which you would need to actually drill into the surface to obtain and would effectively be impossible to extract using any tech we can even remotely conceive of) into the hold of a ship of some kind, you would still be fucked.
1) the matter is no longer being compressed. So it would expand. Yes, hundreds of millions of tons of matter would expand extremely rapidly in your hold. Have fun with that
2) neutron decay would begin. Neutrons would decay into their base components with a small amount of matter being converted to pure energy in the process. Not a problem on small scales. But hundreds of millions of tons would start all at once with an average decay time of ten minutes. In layman's terms? It is a nuclear bomb that would put out fifty trillion times more energy than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima over the course of about twenty minutes. It would be the single most powerful superweapon ever used and would contain more energy than every explosive, including nuclear, detonated by mankind ever by billions of orders of magnitude.
And to top it all off? Even if it worked, it wouldn't be artificial gravity, it would just be regular old gravity.
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