Mining....an asteroid.....for WATER....
Ooooooh kaaaaaay.........
Water mined in space is cheaper than water shipped from the earth's gravity well. Much, much, much cheaper. It costs about $5KUSD per pound to put something into orbit.
Water, paper, whatever.
The economics makes sense, and it's not NASA doing it, so I'm good with it.
/johnny
That actually makes sense in a space-based economy. Other operations in space will need water, and extraction it from the Moon or an asteroid would be more cost-effective than shipping it up from Earth.
WATER = H2O = propelant = fuel for those in Rio Linda.
That sounds like a bit more of a haul than water...
Besides, who says these craft have to be manned or fast? An ion drive might take you a year (or longer) to get out and back... but if the mining vessel is automated, who cares? Send it off, wait two years, rake in cash...
This wouldn’t be necessary if environmentalists let us mine more on Earth.
-—Mining....an asteroid.....for WATER....
Ooooooh kaaaaaay.........——
I’m guessing that the water would be used for moon base trips, etc., to save the energy needed to launch water into space.
As long as no taxpayer money is spent, I’m all for it.
If the mining is successful, the UN will claim the platinum for the earth community, I.e., George Soros. ;-)
Yep. If you are going to set up habitats off Earth, you’ll need that kind of stuff. Makes more sense to mine it out there than to try and haul it up out of the gravity well.