Where is Webb?

[RickHaleParker]

I am waiting to see what Webb can find in the local part of the Milky Way Galaxy. You know things that could be within our reach with some technical advances.

[BlackBart]

If we just bolted on a bigger turbo we could get there ....

[matthew1]

I am waiting to see what Webb can find in the local part of the Milky Way Galaxy.

That 10mm socket you lost?

[matthew1]

Interesting:

For many of its observatories, NASA allows astronomers to submit proposals for observation and allows those users to have exclusive access to the resulting data for a time afterward. But for its newest instrument, NASA has a set of targets where the data will be made public immediately, for anyone to analyze as they wish.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07 ... wn-galaxy/

[RickHaleParker]

If we just bolted on a bigger turbo we could get there ....

I think Close Loop Environment Systems going to be the answer not some energy intense hyper-speed solution.

Biosphere 2 in the late 80s was on the right track. If we learn to build cities in space and gather the rich resources out there and build more cities in space. We would be on step closer to inter-generation ships. Once you learned to do it. It is actually easier to extract resources in space then on earth.

Most of the earth's resources sank to the earth's core when the whole earth was in a molten state. The resource we been extracting where delivered in the late bombardment after the crust had solidified. With asteroids and comets the materials have not been stratified like they are on earth. That why it will be easier to the denser materials. We would avoid the cost of lifting mass out of the earth's gravity well if we do resource collection in space in stead of on earth. Another advantage to doing resource extraction and manufacturing in space is you don't muck up Biosphere 1.

[RickHaleParker]

That 10mm socket you lost?

Darn thing slipped when trying loosen a stubborn bolt. The thing must of went into orbit. I can not find it on earth.

[matthew1]

Biosphere 2 in the late 80s was on the right track.

I went to Biosphere 2 in 1995 or 1996. I think I read it's been scrapped now.

Most of the earth's resources sank to the earth's core when the whole earth was in a molten state. The resource we been extracting where delivered in the late bombardment after the crust had solidified. With asteroids and comets the materials have not been stratified like they are on earth. That why it will be easier to the denser materials. We would avoid the cost of lifting mass out of the earth's gravity well if we do resource collection in space in stead of on earth.

I read somewhere that a good candidate asteroid would have all the gold/platinum/silver we've ever mined in the history of mankind x 1 million, which would upset the global markets, to put it mildly.

We only need to be careful when returning the resources to Earth.

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I wonder how the goal of pushing an asteroid into Earth's orbit to mine stacks up in Elon Musk's goals list behind colonizing Mars... seems like it would be, uh, fairly lucrative, and far less dangerous for humans.

[abscate]

I propose we send Elon on an advanced scouting mission on his phallic symbol with URO booster seals

[BlackBart]

Second!!

[matthew1]

Eh, Elon Musk... he's not great, but I don't get the dislike for the guy. He's singlehandedly moving space forward / rescuing it from the nation-state, risk-averse dinosaurs, where it's been making C grades for decades. The US and Soviet programs in the 50s, 60s, and 70s were A+... but since then they've been in bad atrophy. Look at the Frankenstein jobs program that is SLS. It's a disaster. If it explodes on the pad next month, I think there's even money on if they'll even keep the program going. It's that bad.

The phallic rocket... that's Bezos (Blue Origin) anyway. Now that guy I won't defend at all.