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Would it sound less far-fetched if we talked about mining asteroids for rare-earth metals, conductive metals like copper, industrial metals like titanium, etc?
Gold is an industrial metal, though
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Would it sound less far-fetched if we talked about mining asteroids for rare-earth metals, conductive metals like copper, industrial metals like titanium, etc?
The sad part is that regardless of whether it's copper or gold, the economics of mining asteroids still doesn't work out.
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Its funny how here you get down voted for not reading a part of news thoroughly, or for that matter being wrong. (Or even for acknowledging that you were wrong), i am dying laughing here guys haha..! great work keep up.. EDIT: in case you couldn't fathom, that was sarcasm. EDIT 2: seriously, stop it! or reply as to why are you down voting? is it a crime to mistakenly post a comment and then acknowledge your mistake o…
General rule of thumb: If you find yourself editing your post asking people not to downvote, it's time to delete it.
well i don't want to get upvotes but if you disagree with me then please take some more time to write a quick comment as to why.
Well i posted asking if it will be visible to naked eye, someone quoted a part of the story (indirectly) saying that it won't be and i happened to have missed that part, and i get down voted (for missing reading a part of the story).. well then i acknowledge that i missed it and i get down voted still even then i asked the down voter why was he is down voting my comments and guess what.. i got down voted.. again. but no one has balls to write back, or maybe they are super busy with their work but anyways, and i wont edit this comment but i can say two things:
- you (or any of the downvoters) probably won't reply to this comment either. - this comment will (almost certainly) be down voted too.
lets see how correct i am..
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Give science a little more credit :) The n-body problem is hard, but it's more like "we don't know if this same asteroid will hit the Earth 20 years from now" hard than "this asteroid could shift course at any moment!" hard.
The n -body problem is hard to solve analytically, but trivially easy to solve to arbitrarily high precision numerically.
n-body dynamics is a complicated, chaotic system. Getting any precision at all over any reasonable period of time is a feat of itself.
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from NASA's gif, it doesn't even bend its trajectory.. and also it's gravity will not affect earth's tides and tectonic plates :) EDIT: although from the gif it appears that it was a close call on the moon. But i close my eyes and i see a world where i get out and see a small piece of rock hit our moon with a decent explosion when the moon is full. Man if it does't affect out planet in any way, i would really like to…
Don't forget that's a two-dimensional picture of 3D space, so it's probably not nearly as close to the moon as it appears. While most of the objects in the solar system are in kinda-sorta the same plane, they're not quite.
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from NASA's gif, it doesn't even bend its trajectory.. and also it's gravity will not affect earth's tides and tectonic plates :) EDIT: although from the gif it appears that it was a close call on the moon. But i close my eyes and i see a world where i get out and see a small piece of rock hit our moon with a decent explosion when the moon is full. Man if it does't affect out planet in any way, i would really like to…
Don't forget that's a two-dimensional picture of 3D space, so it's probably not nearly as close to the moon as it appears. While most of the objects in the solar system are in kinda-sorta the same plane, they're not quite.
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General rule of thumb: If you find yourself editing your post asking people not to downvote, it's time to delete it.
"or reply as to why are you down voting?" well i don't want to get upvotes but if you disagree with me then please take some more time to write a quick comment as to why. Well i posted asking if it will be visible to naked eye, someone quoted a part of the story (indirectly) saying that it won't be and i happened to have missed that part, and i get down voted (for missing reading a part of the story).. well then i ac…
Anyone have a recommendation for a kick ass telescope that could see this thing? Best bang for the buck kinda deal.