/sci/ - Science & Math

Asteroid mining bots could send down payloads to crash into the ocean safely.
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What was the name of that near object that people claimed had 30,000 tonnes of gold in it?

Governments are trying to kep gold prices low so as to maintain/increase the power of their currency.
No businessman will go asteroid mining because the amount of metals would flood the market.
If you flood the market with gold, gold's price will drop.

Therefore, governments should go asteroid mining, Q.E.D.

Asteroid mining: How can you make it work?

>Hard mode: Asteroid must be moved into low earth orbit

>Nightmare mode: Asteroid must be safely 'crashed' onto the surface in one piece for easy mining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%286178%29_1986_DA

>(6178) 1986 DA is a 2.3-kilometre-diameter M-type Mars-crosser and near-Earth asteroid,
>(...)
>scientists revealed that it contained over "10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum", or an approximate value at the time of its discovery of "$90 billion for the gold
>and a cool trillion dollars for the platinum, plus loose change for the asteroid's 10 billion tons of iron and a billion tons of nickel.

OMG why haven't we brought this down yet? Imagine how big statue you could make with much gold.