Ancient Neutron-Star Crash Made Enough Gold and Uranium to Fill Earth's Oceans

Space.com ^ | May 8, 2019 | Charles Q. Choi

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“A one second gamma-ray burst would emit more energy than the sun will radiate during its entire lifetime”

Wow, that is incomprehensible.

[ETL]

Re: "“A one second gamma-ray burst would emit more energy than the sun will radiate during its entire lifetime”

Wow, that is incomprehensible.

As are several other things within the article.

"A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon of its material would have a mass over... (900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza)"

"In the enormous gravitational field of a neutron star, that teaspoon of material would weigh 1.1×10^25 N (about 15 times what the Moon would weigh if it were placed on the surface of the Earth)"

"The entire mass of the Earth at neutron star density would fit into a sphere of 305m [~3 football fields wide] in diameter."

"Ancient Neutron-Star Crash Made Enough Gold and Uranium to Fill Earth's Oceans"

This last one of course is somewhat less certain than the others, but is probably not off by too much.

[dp0622]

I’ll get the shovel!

Just tell me where to start digging. :)

If only it were that easy.

Probably costs quite a bit to mine for the stuff these days.

[ETL]

Hey,
I meant to ping you to this thread, but forgot-about-it.

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[dp0622]

VERY COOL!!

I don’t think my Challenger could keep up :)

If I had a thousand to blow very frivolously, I would rent one for a day.

[dp0622]

VERY COOL!!

I don’t think my Challenger could keep up :)

If I had a thousand to blow very frivolously, I would rent one for a day.

[thoughtomator]

More fraud passed on as physics. “Neutron stars” are another one of those mystical objects that can’t actually happen in reality. For a good laugh, try to figure out what it is alleged a “neutron star” is made of at how that works exactly at the subatomic level.

[Right Wing Assault]

Yeah.

$771 Trillion Worth Of Gold Lies Hidden In The Ocean: Good Luck Getting It

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/09/15/771-trillion-worth-gold-hidden-ocean/#32bc99f823d3

Also, if you could get even a fraction out, it’s value would drop to not much.

[jmcenanly]

If we were to find gold in those quantities,we would value good less as a medium of exchange of decoration, and more core it’s physical and chemical properties, such as conductivity.
At the turn of the last century, aluminum was a precious metal. With the introduction of the Bayer process, it is cheap enough to wrap leftovers.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL.

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You’re welcome.

[raybbr]

Sara Bareilles. “Cassiopeia “.

[Paul R.]

Fascinating!!

[SunkenCiv]

BTW, that's a *lot* of AU and U.

[Robert DeLong]

Well they had an advantage that gold mining in outer space would not enjoy. They merely had to come up with a method to reduce the extremely difficult & costly process to refine, and it was all but impossible to accomplish that on a mass production scale.

Gold miners in outer-space have to overcome the technical know how to build and launch rockets that can carry heavy payloads. In addition they need to transport the machinery needed to extract gold from planets. Then they have to figure out how to do this on a steady basis.

While aluminum was difficult to refine, it’s not a geological rarity, like gold. Aluminum is actually the most abundant element in the earth’s crust and the third-most common element, after oxygen and silicon, on the entire planet.

So the two, while similar, are miles apart in overcoming the obstacles they both faced. But you make my point exactly, when gold no longer becomes a rarity, like aluminum it will fall in price. Aluminum was at its high, 1,200.00 per kg. Forty years later it was worth just 1.00 per kg. 8>)