/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1142463]

*Land on an asteroid.
*Establish a permanent base on an asteroid.
*Establish nuclear reactor on asteroid
*Mine metals from asteroid, using some of them to retrofit the exterior and interior, and sell the rest for mad cash.
*Fit asteroid with propulsion system

HELL YEAH, INTERSTELLAR SPACESHIP IS GO!

[Anonymous No.1142465]

I hope that we'll be doing that within 200 years.

[Anonymous No.1142470]

>Asteroid collides with another object in space
>Wat do

[Anonymous No.1142474]

waitingforOPtodeliver.jpg

[Anonymous No.1142478]

We wouldn't need asteroid mining bases because matter can be neither created nor destroyed.

JUST RECYCLE YOUR FUCKING MOUNTAIN DEW CANS ALREADY!

[Anonymous No.1142484]

>Land on asteroid
>Realize it was porous
>get fucked up

[Anonymous No.1142485]

>>1142465
Current plans for a manned mission to an asteroid: ~2015-2020.

[Anonymous No.1142486]

>>1142478
Unless we want to colonize other worlds or become filthy rich. That requires mining.

[Anonymous No.1142491]

>>1142485
No, mining an asteroid. In particular, by a private industry.

[Anonymous No.1142502]

I think the cost of trips to the asteroid and the trips back will balance out the profits made.

[Anonymous No.1142549]

Sieg Neo Zeon!

[Anonymous No.1142569]

>>1142502
There are single Asteroids out there worth several trillion dollars. I think it's a safe investment.

[Anonymous No.1142685]

>>1142569There are single Asteroids out there worth several trillion dollars. I think it's a safe investment.

...once we have much, much better robotic tech, space flight costs come down significantly, and the cost of things like iridium and yttrium skyrocket I could see it happening

[Anonymous No.1142746]

>>1142685
Excited am I :3

[Anonymous No.1142774]

>>1142470
just to point out, asteroid belts are not nearly as dense as what you see in a movie like star wars

[Anonymous No.1142785]

>>1142685
All possible within 2 decades. Prepare to live your 40's in a glorious new era of human accomplishment (or apocalypse, depending on your level of pessimism).

[Anonymous No.1142789]

>>1142685
As soon robots can mine and reproduce from those minerals mining will become virtually costless.

[Anonymous No.1142801]

>>1142789
Truth.

[Anonymous No.1142820]

>>1142801
When you think about it, humanity could have an interstellar empire before we even get out there. Just send them out with the programming to create space stations and planet side colonies as well as spread to new star systems and we won't be able to catch up with them. Sucks to be any alien species in the way of our autonomous space bulldozers though. They would think we are malicious and likely get wiped out before we even know they are there, if we learn that at all.

[Anonymous No.1142822]

>>1142774
on average, they orbit several million miles apart from eachother.

[Anonymous No.1142827]

Did someone say Space Hulk?
Cos I'm pretty sure I heard someone say Space Hulk

[Anonymous No.1142850]

>land on an asteroid
>establish permanent base
>establish nuclear reactor
>realize the asteroid has no water for either the base or the reactor
>crew is either cooked alive because they can't vent the extra heat, or they go batshit insane after decades of being on a pebble in space

[Anonymous No.1142857]

>>1142850
That's why it'll be stocked with every form of visual entertainment ever made, noob.

[Anonymous No.1142862]

>>1142850
Bring your own water and recycle the crew's piss.

PROBLEM


SOOOOOOOOOLVED

[Anonymous No.1142868]

*Land on an asteroid.
*Establish a permanent base on an asteroid.
*Establish nuclear reactor on asteroid
*Mine metals from asteroid, using some of them to retrofit the exterior and interior, and sell the rest for mad cash.
*Fit asteroid with propulsion system

COLONY DROP

[Anonymous No.1142873]

>>1142850
They would land on water rich objects. They would need to to produce fuel.

[Anonymous No.1142877]

>>1142857
I'm sure it'll be as much fun as the vaults of fallout, listening to/watching the same records/movies over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again for centuries, without ever going outside or enjoying a relaxing trek around a national park with lakes and forests and mountains and shit

also: no gravity, enjoy your boneless blobs

[Anonymous No.1142903]

>>1142877
>Tether two Asteroids together, orbiting eachother at a distance of several kilometers to simulate gravity.
>Place coiled generator at the center of the tether to collect and convert motion+sun's magnetic field into auxiliary power.

[Anonymous No.1142919]

ITT: SCIENCE!

[Anonymous No.1142947]

>>1142903
I'm going to be picking out rocks so big you can just spin just it and have a floor within the asteroid along the walls.

[Anonymous No.1142966]

>>1142947
We should make a spaceship out of Phobos, then, nigga's huge.

[Anonymous No.1142968]

>>1142903
They'd have to be orbiting really fucking fast to generate any useful amount of energy.

[bmo No.1142989]

Land on moon
Colonize the moon extensively.
Use nuclear energy extensively
Use nuclear energy for your rockets.
Build modular rocket transports that do everything, even haul nuclear waste.
Dump your nuclear waste in one big pile
Dump goes critical and the explosion ejects the moon from its orbit
Moon becomes space ship.
Meet weird people and societies.

[Anonymous No.1143023]

>>1142989
I don't have the mathematical know-how to calculate how much thrust it would take to move the moon.

[Anonymous No.1143026]

>>1142966

[bmo No.1143073]

>>1143023

Underage ban for not recognizing a television show.

[Anonymous No.1143076]

>>1142462

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[Anonymous No.1143134]

I'd live on an asteroid.