James - asteroid mining
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@hylandsjgcn The thing is you have to transform space from an energy sink into an energy source. Sending solar panels to space will always take more energy than they produce over decades. In teh beginning, to get things started, sure, send them from Earth, but anything beyond that needs a probe that can churn out asteroidal/lunar material into solar panels.
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@hylandsjgcn But once these two first milestones are achieved, NOT going to space will become unsustainably expensive. Because then you can process asteroid materials. Imagine being able to build huge heatshields or entire spacecraft made of pure platinum, reusability won't be an issue anymore. With advanced 3-Dprinting/additive manufacturing technology and nanotechnology, anything can be built in space. Asteroidal material can be made into habitats and placed in Earth-lagrangian orbits.
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great video.....
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Let's just kill everyone. :D
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Good exposition, too bad people like us are a small rarity among the masses... I too own a copy of Mining the Sky and re-read it all the time, if only I had the money... I hope people like Elon Musk get the SRU revolution started soon.
linghun 6 months ago
@linghun
This may not sound as silly to you as most but I plan to, after uni try to work in a commercial space flight company or one of the companies entering for the Google x prise to work my way up the ladder of these firms to get into an influential position.
In the words of John lewis "Are goal is not to colonise space,
Are goal is to make space so ecconomicaly attractive it collanises itself"
hylandsjgcn 6 months ago
@hylandsjgcn good luck. I believe the first goal of sustainable space economics has to be the manufacture of solar panels in space by means of automated minerals processors with 3-D printing-like abilities. Once massive amounts of solar panels are made in space, anything can be powered, incl. the second step which is manufacturing propellant out of asteroidal or lunar water. As long as power and propellant have to be launched from Earth, nothing will ever be economical.
linghun 6 months ago
@linghun I think the easyist way to start would be space tourism and a leo fuel station getting the fuel from the moon. I think that the solar panels are where the power for space habitats will come from I just don't think that it is part of stage 1.Yes getting the fuel from the luna ice will use solar energy but i think the most economical way to start off with this is just launching the solar panels from earth. Anyways do you have an email I can contact you on
hylandsjgcn 6 months ago