Message from @Baraban

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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?

2018-03-23 09:29:07 UTC  

Aren't we already going down a road something like that with 3D printing?

2018-03-23 09:29:23 UTC  

Sudden abundance when there are plenty of parties that benefit from the scarcity.

2018-03-23 09:29:36 UTC  

Yeah, but 3D printing is very limited.

2018-03-23 09:29:45 UTC  

We can't print molecules, we can't synthesize atoms.

2018-03-23 09:29:49 UTC  

And it expands the more and more the tech is developed.

2018-03-23 09:30:08 UTC  

We wouldn't get there like, tomorrow, it'd be over a course of years, possibly even decades.

2018-03-23 09:30:26 UTC  

Even if the tech existed tomorrow, people would be careful to make it a gradual shift.

2018-03-23 09:30:31 UTC  

At some point we would need to be able to control the precise arrangement of atoms.

2018-03-23 09:30:43 UTC  

We must secure the existence of our race and a future for passable traps

2018-03-23 09:30:51 UTC  

Metallurgy would be obsolete.

2018-03-23 09:31:06 UTC  

So would meat

2018-03-23 09:31:20 UTC  

Vegans would win at this point

2018-03-23 09:31:44 UTC  

I think we kind of have some control over the arrangement of atoms already. I'm trying to go look for the experiment again, but if I remember right there was a group of scientists that actually pulled a basic level of it off

2018-03-23 09:32:00 UTC  

they solved the alchemy question and turned lead into gold, I'm gonna go look that up again and see if I can find it

2018-03-23 09:32:18 UTC  

which is fine, no reason to raise animals if their meat can be produced more efficiently without having to do so

2018-03-23 09:32:28 UTC  

moral bonus of not having to kill them as well

2018-03-23 09:32:46 UTC  

some of us like to feast upon the dead

2018-03-23 09:33:00 UTC  

We can transmute elements, with a particle accelerator, and a lot of patience.

2018-03-23 09:33:02 UTC  

LOL

2018-03-23 09:33:10 UTC  

Yeah but if we don't have cows how can we harvest cow farts for methane

2018-03-23 09:33:15 UTC  

Tucker Carlson plugged DuckDuckGo

2018-03-23 09:33:19 UTC  

when I eat chicken wings for instance, I think of the body count, and I feel like a God

2018-03-23 09:33:35 UTC  

I've been trying DDG again recently, been at it for 3 weeks now.

2018-03-23 09:33:40 UTC  

Why? You should feel like a coward for eating chicken wings

2018-03-23 09:33:45 UTC  

You're eating someone else's hunt

2018-03-23 09:33:59 UTC  

Only two annoyances; it's slower to load than Google, and it always shoves images into the results.

2018-03-23 09:34:05 UTC  

I am eating a strange looking animal that I would kill on site whether or not it was delicious

2018-03-23 09:34:11 UTC  

lathered in sauces of my choosing

2018-03-23 09:34:17 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372507611284766722/426675040910704640/DY1din1VQAAyQLX.png

2018-03-23 09:34:35 UTC  

>game journos

2018-03-23 09:34:35 UTC  

make an "artificial" cow's stomach