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MidEngineManiac
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OCT 10, 01:16 AM
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hnthomps
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OCT 10, 05:45 AM
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Ice/water according to some reports. Useful for fuel and life sustaining needs.
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Jonesy
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OCT 10, 09:20 AM
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We should probably leave the moon alone. Over the long term it would likely be a bad idea. The moon is already slowly drifting away from us.. Start removing large amounts of mass from it over time through mining would likely speed up that process, and it wouldn't take removing as much mass as you might think to make it happen..
So with our luck the moon would drift away rapidly, or just end up breaking apart as we hollow it out and Earth gravity continues to tug on it with the same force.
Then we will end up in an post apocalypse wasteland, rules by robots, monsters and wizards!
I mean, cmon, has nobody ever seen Thundarr the Barbarian? 
[This message has been edited by Jonesy (edited 10-10-2020).]
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rinselberg
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OCT 14, 02:50 PM
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Hail the Trans-Moon International Partnership or "TIP."
Actually, it's the NASA-led "Artemis Accords."
"Eight nations sign NASA-led Artemis Accords to guide moon exploration"
| quote | | NASA developed the Artemis Accords to partner with other nations to set basic principles to guide robotic and crewed lunar exploration. |
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"Chow down" with Denise Chow for NBC News; October 14, 2020.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sci...exploration-n1243398[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 10-14-2020).]
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olejoedad
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OCT 14, 03:40 PM
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blackrams
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OCT 14, 03:42 PM
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 Hmm, mining the moon?
Gives a whole new thought of NIMBY doesn't it. 
Rams
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OCT 15, 11:54 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Jonesy:
We should probably leave the moon alone. Over the long term it would likely be a bad idea.
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Logic and long term thinking, its something lacking in the world these days.
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rinselberg
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OCT 31, 11:31 PM
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"Mine This"
CNN, CNET, CBS News and other media outlets are newly abuzz about 16 Psyche, describing it as a "rare metallic asteroid" worth $10,000 quadrillion.
| quote | | $10,000,000,000,000,000,000. |
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IF all of its metals could be mined for their worth, based on today's markets for iron, nickel, gold and platinum.
That's about 70 thousand times more than the $142 trillion value of the global economy for 2019, according to Forbes contributor Jamie Carter.
Barron's Allen Root, however, throws cold water on the idea that such a comparison makes any sense whatsoever, in economic terms, even imagining that it is already possible to mine this super-sized asteroid for all of its worth.
16 Psyche is getting news page real estate because of a paper that was just published in the Planetary Science Journal, based on a UV-reflectance study of the asteroid using the Hubble Space Telescope.
16 Psyche is thought to be the residual core of a "wannabe planet" that never completed the process of acquiring the full size and structure of a rocky planet like Earth, Mars or Venus. It's shaped like a potato that extends 173 miles across, or 144 miles, or 114 miles, depending on what angle is used to line it up. It orbits the Sun in the Main Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars, about 230 million miles distant from Earth.
If things go according to plan, 16 Psyche will soon be getting the NASA space probe treatment; i.e.:
| quote | | This intriguing asteroid is now the primary target of the Psyche mission. Targeted to launch in August of 2022, the Psyche spacecraft would arrive at the asteroid in early 2026, following a Mars gravity assist in 2023. Over 21 months in orbit, the spacecraft will map and study 16 Psyche’s properties using a multispectral imager, a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer, a magnetometer, and a radio instrument (for gravity measurement). The mission’s goal is, among other things, to determine whether Psyche is indeed the core of a planet-size object. |
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"There's an asteroid in space worth $10 quintillion"
CNN video content (90 seconds)
https://www.cnn.com/videos/...atv-trending-videos/
"16 Psyche in Depth"
NASA Solar System Exploration page
https://solarsystem.nasa.go.../16-psyche/in-depth/
"Hubble telescope gives closer look at rare asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000"
Sophie Lewis for CBS News; October 28, 2020.
https://www.cbsnews.com/new...h-10000-quadrillion/
"Hubble Examines Massive Metal Asteroid Called ‘Psyche’ That’s Worth Way More Than Our Global Economy"
Jamie Carter for Forbes; October 26, 2020.
https://www.forbes.com/site...-our-global-economy/
"HST UV Observations of Asteroid (16) Psyche"
Becker et al; The Planetary Science Journal; October 26, 2020.
https://iopscience.iop.org/...e/10.3847/PSJ/abb67e
And last, but not least
"The Most Valuable Thing In the Solar System Is a $700 Quintillion Asteroid. Except It Isn’t [worth $700 Quintillion.]"
Al (Allen) Root for Barron's; November 13, 2019.
https://www.barrons.com/art...drillion-51573644602[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 11-01-2020).]
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I had planned to watch the movie that was associated with the trailer that I had linked to in my previous post. I thought I was going to be watching 
The original may be better, but I'm not all that keen now to bother finding out.