Message from @DanielKO

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2018-03-23 09:14:57 UTC  

maybe it's me being an idiot, but I actually don't get why people hate conservatives so much. Even if you think they're literally killing the poor, they've agreed to play the game of politics so we can just vote them out

2018-03-23 09:15:07 UTC  

How would they even bring it back?

2018-03-23 09:15:11 UTC  

far left doesn't agree to the game of politics, they want the game of censorship.

2018-03-23 09:15:26 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372507611284766722/426670298977533952/unknown.png

2018-03-23 09:15:40 UTC  

Black Science Man keeps talking, the first trillionaire will be the one that finds an asteroid made out of gold or platinum. But truth is, the world's economy might not be able to handle all that. The value will crash faster than a dinosaur-killing asteroid.

2018-03-23 09:16:09 UTC  

Well, balck science man is no black economist man

2018-03-23 09:16:12 UTC  

Unless they can't actually bring it back to earth, in which case it's worth absolutely nothing

2018-03-23 09:16:31 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372507611284766722/426670573696057344/unknown.png

2018-03-23 09:16:52 UTC  

Of course, everyone ignores the amount of fuel to haul an asteroid around.

2018-03-23 09:16:55 UTC  

He is upset about the photo of Sargon with PJW

2018-03-23 09:16:58 UTC  

Even so, let's assume they get it back. How heavy is this asteroid we're talking about?

2018-03-23 09:17:20 UTC  

Let's assume it's either of pure gold or platinum, we'll figure out which later. How many kg we talking here?

2018-03-23 09:17:59 UTC  

probably thousands or millions of tons

2018-03-23 09:18:58 UTC  

Then we've a simple solution. Rather than a full on sale of it, they have to sell in intervals, only so much at a time.

2018-03-23 09:19:34 UTC  

At the highest end, we have asteroids in the 10^15 tons range.

2018-03-23 09:19:37 UTC  

That way instead of them just crashing the price because now there's an oversupply, there's a level of control to the price. This is all assuming they even sell it to begin with.

2018-03-23 09:20:25 UTC  

@dko you can't bring back a moon sized asteirod

2018-03-23 09:20:25 UTC  

because tbh I wouldn't put it past someone like elon to just make a space museum and put it in there

2018-03-23 09:20:52 UTC  

I know, the point is, they can be fucking huge.

2018-03-23 09:20:53 UTC  

I mean I'm assuming for the sake of logistics we aren't talking about actually hauling it back to earth

2018-03-23 09:21:04 UTC  

You bring however much you can haul.

2018-03-23 09:21:14 UTC  

I figured we're talking about them having legal ownership and hiring a mining company to take pieces of it off to haul back

2018-03-23 09:21:32 UTC  

He just keeps pumping them out every 5 minutes a new tweet...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372507611284766722/426671835669725185/unknown.png

2018-03-23 09:21:34 UTC  

The trick is to find asteroids that are remnants of protoplanets that underwent differentiation.

2018-03-23 09:21:49 UTC  

So dense elements are separated from lighter elements.

2018-03-23 09:22:19 UTC  

Instead of having to separate dirt and rock from what you really want, it's mostly pure already, thanks to gravity.

2018-03-23 09:23:21 UTC  

I figured we were talking about it being pure from the start, for the sake of argument

2018-03-23 09:24:06 UTC  

>Their latest figure for all the gold in the world is 171,300 tonnes

2018-03-23 09:24:24 UTC  

Looks like it isn't hard to go above that figure, in terms of asteroid mass.

2018-03-23 09:25:47 UTC  

Anyway, what I was pondering was, what would be the economical and political implications of bringing such an abundant amount of rare material from space, down to Earth.

2018-03-23 09:25:55 UTC  

Is there anyone here who keeps up with how the tech for virtual reality is going? I've been interested in it because I want to see how far it goes (because I want better vr for the vidya games), but I haven't kept up with it lately.

2018-03-23 09:26:03 UTC  

Could be a copper asteroid even.

2018-03-23 09:26:17 UTC  

Oh, easy answer. If it lands anywhere other than china, it's going to be bought from that country by china.

2018-03-23 09:26:41 UTC  

Even if the country can't transport it and so china just buys the land it's on

2018-03-23 09:26:45 UTC  

Imagine the USA, and other countries, deem it a threat to the global economy.

2018-03-23 09:27:15 UTC  

They wouldn't do that. The worst they'd do is decide we can only mine out so much of it at a time, to keep the prices stable.

2018-03-23 09:27:31 UTC  

Imagine if Russia tows the asteroid to Earth.

2018-03-23 09:28:03 UTC  

They wouldn't get to. The US would probably shoot it out of orbit if Russia was getting it, and then claim it was a terrorist attack by Iraq.

2018-03-23 09:28:19 UTC  

Naturally it'd work because ISIS would fucking *love* to claim they can bomb space.

2018-03-23 09:28:31 UTC  

uh

2018-03-23 09:28:42 UTC  

It's a bit related to the idea of a "duplicator/synthesizer" like the ones in Star Trek TNG. Could such a wonder even be introduced into our civilization?