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Originally posted by ShadowXIX
Originally posted by Frosty
There will be no new elements to find in space, .
The list of elements formed in supernova is limited as well as materials and elements formed in geological events (I would imagine).
I dont agree with this, I highly doubt every single element ever formed in the entire vast universe happened to land on this little speck on nothing we call earth.
The model of the universe does not even work if the elements we had on earth and can see were everything in the universe. Estimates of the amount of matter present in galaxies, based on gravitational effects, consistently suggest that there is far more matter than is directly observable.
Scientist sometimes call this dark matter but its really just a term of expressions of our ignorance of whats in the universe. Astronomers don't know what it is, but they know it makes up about 23 percent of the universe.
The universe is far too big and the amount humans have explored far too small to rule out anything yet.
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
I think one of the best reasons in the future to inhabit space will be mining. There is a platinum asteroid that is worth about $5 trillion or $6 trillion, as well as an asteroid that has more steel in it than all the iron on Earth.
Gold, Platinum, Iron , Nickel you name it its all out there in spades. Its access to near infinite raw materials.
As we get better tech to get into space cheaper and Earth's resources cant handle peoples needs space mining will take off.
[url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/reason_07_000723.html]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/reason_07_000723.html[/ url]
Originally posted by Frosty
Don't you mean 'there is more iron-oxide on the asteroid than iron in steel on earth'?.
[edit on 15-11-2005 by Frosty]
Godwin said there is a platinum asteroid that is worth about $5 trillion or $6 trillion, as well as an asteroid that has more steel in it than all the iron on Earth.
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
Originally posted by Frosty
Don't you mean 'there is more iron-oxide on the asteroid than iron in steel on earth'?.
[edit on 15-11-2005 by Frosty]
I think you have to ask Richard Godwin one of the Board of Directors for the National Space Society (NSS) if he meant iron-oxide on a asteroid than iron in steel on earth.
Heres the exact qoute he said
Godwin said there is a platinum asteroid that is worth about $5 trillion or $6 trillion, as well as an asteroid that has more steel in it than all the iron on Earth.
If you think you have to correct what he said perhaps you should contact him.
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