Are we considering gold to be a crazy rare metal now?
Scottiths on
Really? Rarer than gold? I’m pretty sure there is an entire moon just 200,000 miles away totally covered in the stuff..
herrcollin on
I mean, based on raw supply potential I think my poop is “rarer than gold”
Mike__O on
This is why I find the concept of space mining to be laughable. Look at how much it cost to get this sample back to Earth, plus the cost of the material collected in the Apollo missions. And that’s all for a material that’s literally laying there on the ground.
Say we found a gold, or platinum, or whatever else deposit on the moon. There’s no way within the boundaries of current technology (or any projected advances within at least the turn of the next century) where sending the equipment necessary to extract and return the gold would be profitable.
Ythio on
Rarity doesn’t mean high price. We have ever declining oil reserves and prices aren’t steadily climbing.
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Are we considering gold to be a crazy rare metal now?
Really? Rarer than gold? I’m pretty sure there is an entire moon just 200,000 miles away totally covered in the stuff..
I mean, based on raw supply potential I think my poop is “rarer than gold”
This is why I find the concept of space mining to be laughable. Look at how much it cost to get this sample back to Earth, plus the cost of the material collected in the Apollo missions. And that’s all for a material that’s literally laying there on the ground.
Say we found a gold, or platinum, or whatever else deposit on the moon. There’s no way within the boundaries of current technology (or any projected advances within at least the turn of the next century) where sending the equipment necessary to extract and return the gold would be profitable.
Rarity doesn’t mean high price. We have ever declining oil reserves and prices aren’t steadily climbing.