The $10,000 quadrillion asteroid: Experts reveal how iron, nickel and gold makes 16-Psyche...

Daily Mail UK ^ | Christian Schroeder

[BenLurkin]

FULL HEADLINE: The $10,000 quadrillion asteroid: Experts reveal how iron, nickel and gold makes 16-Psyche so valuable as NASA prepares to visit it in 2026

Three times further away from the sun than the Earth lies an enormous lump of metal. 

Around 252km in diameter, the metallic 'M-class' asteroid 16 Psyche is the target of NASA's next mission to the belt of giant rocks that encircles the inner solar system.

And the space agency now plans to visit it much sooner than originally planned.

Not only has the launch has been brought forward one year to the summer of 2022, but NASA's scientists have also found a way to get to Psyche (pronounced SYKe-ee) much faster by taking a more efficient trajectory. 

The new route means the Psyche spacecraft won't have to swing around the Earth to build up speed and won't pass as close to the sun, so it needs less heat protection.  It is now due to arrive in 2026, four years earlier than the original timeline.

The main aim of the journey to Psyshe is to gather more information about our own solar system. 

[PIF]

All three of the series by by Cixin Liu are good.

[marktwain]

In fact, too stupid to know they are retarded.

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I recall reading a study about intellectual ability.

Stupid people were too stupid to realize they were stupid. They thought they were brilliant!

Smart people were smart enough to know they were ignorant about a great many things. Smart people tend to be humble because of their ignorance.

[Big Red Badger]

Lord...
Make me Humble.

[ExpatGator]

If the cost to get it is figured into the equation it might actually not be worth doing it. More to produce than it is worth and therefore not worth doing. Unless, of course you want government to intervene into a commodity market to show those stupid gold bugs who’s boss....
Gold will always be valuable. Perhaps not always at the level it currently is, but it is a very useful metal.

[HamiltonJay]

That’s an M class PLANET, not an M class asteroid.

[marktwain]

If the cost to get it is figured into the equation it might actually not be worth doing it. More to produce than it is worth and therefore not worth doing. Unless, of course you want government to intervene into a commodity market to show those stupid gold bugs who’s boss....

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Let the market decide!

[jonascord]

The study you are referring to is known as the Dunnin-Kruger Effect. It goes a long way toward explaining Leftist thought...

[marktwain]

Thanks for the reference.

Just for fun, you might look at the “RationalWiki” article about it. It uses Rush Limbaugh as an example of ignorance, and Al Franken as an example of knowledge and humility.

I believe you are correct about leftists. But people can be very smart and reach the wrong conclusions, when they start from false assumptions about the nature of reality.

[Garth Tater]

"There is a whole solar system of them waiting to be picked up and used. "

Belters rule!

 The Expanse    Best TV sci-fi series ever.  Based on the politcal and military tensions between an over populated Earth, a terraforming Mars and the oppressed asteroid belters that provide the resources for both.   [trailer]

Based on James S. A. Corey's novels, Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, Babylon's Ashes, The Butcher of Anderson Station and Gods of Risk.


Remember the Cant!

[teeman8r]

NASA muslims are working on a plan that will change the orbit of the asteroid to bring it closer to earth... dead center actually. thus making the mining of its rich metals easier

[Ancesthntr]

“Stupid people were too stupid to realize they were stupid. They thought they were brilliant!”

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That’s the Dunning-Kruger effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

“It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.” Bill Murray, via Twitter https://twitter.com/biiimurray/status/603262580119842816?lang=en

[ExpatGator]

Amen, Samuel Langhorne.

[Jack Black]

Thanks! Gotta love the title of that one, gonna pick up a copy!

[discostu]

All depends on the speed with which it’s introduced to the market. All at once will crash the market, but it won’t be all at once. We have enough known gold in the ground on earth to crash the market if we mined it fast enough, but we don’t mine it that fast.

[Jack Black]

Thanks! Gotta love the title of that one, gonna pick up a copy!

[alexander_busek]

Gold is a better electrical and thermal conductor than copper.

That is demonstrably false!

Electrical resistivity of Silver = 6.30×10^7 S/m

Thermal conductivity of Silver = 406 W/m K

Electrical resistivity of Copper = 5.96×10^7 S/m

Thermal conductivity of Copper = 385 W/m K

Electrical resistivity of Gold = 4.10×10^7 S/m

Thermal conductivity of Gold = 314 W/m K

Thus, gram for gram, Gold holds 3rd place with respect to both of these properties.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

The $10,000 quadrillion asteroid: Experts reveal how iron, nickel and gold makes 16-Psyche so valuable as NASA prepares to visit it in 2026

By the time we actually get around to mining Psyche, our technology will be so advanced that it will be about as valuable to us then as the discovery of a large deposit of, say, flint would be to us today.

In 100 years, nanotubules and other nano-scale materials made of Carbon will be the most-valuable substances.

Regards,

[jonascord]

If there isn't enough silver or copper in the rock to make it worthwhile to separate out, gold conductors would be a functional substitute. It has other physical properties, as well. It doesn't oxidize, among other things. You can actually roll it thin enough for functional visual transparency. Remember that, during the Manhattan Project, silver was borrowed from the US treasury to make transformers for uranium separation, since copper was considered a critical war material.

Ultimately, I was trying to point out that shipping it back to Earth wouldn't be profitable. Somehow, gold coins would seem to be worthless out in the Asteroid Belt.

[Boogieman]

That was a classification system only for planets though, not asteroids.

[Boogieman]

Umm, a lower resistivity means it’s a BETTER conductor...