Wasting time searching for something that isn't there ...

[Vern Humphrey]

you are thinking of today's systems and equipment,, that may be improved to some degree in the future,

If they were made 99% lighter, it would still cost more to get materials from the asteroids than it would to mine them on earth.

[PWC]

The idea is not to return them to earth, but to use them on "space". Probably the moon, requires a body with gravity. Loong time before anybody is ready to do that.

[Vern Humphrey]

The idea is not to return them to earth, but to use them on "space". Probably the moon, requires a body with gravity. Loong time before anybody is ready to do that.

But again, the problem is it's cheaper to do the mining and smelting and stamping and forging, etc., on Earth than it is to mine the asteroids for raw materials.

[lyman]

But again, the problem is it's cheaper to do the mining and smelting and stamping and forging, etc., on Earth than it is to mine the asteroids for raw materials.

now,,


again, maybe not in the far future,

[Vern Humphrey]

now,,


again, maybe not in the far future,

What would change? You still need enormous amounts of ore to produce steel and other products. You need machinery to dig that ore. You need smelters and similar facilities. You need machinery to turn the resulting metals into manufactured products -- and there is a limit to how light you can go. Talk to someone who owns a hobby machine shop -- drill, lathe and milling machine all in one -- the lack of mass in these little tools limits the precision of the parts they make.

[lyman]

What would change? You still need enormous amounts of ore to produce steel and other products. You need machinery to dig that ore. You need smelters and similar facilities. You need machinery to turn the resulting metals into manufactured products -- and there is a limit to how light you can go. Talk to someone who owns a hobby machine shop -- drill, lathe and milling machine all in one -- the lack of mass in these little tools limits the precision of the parts they make.

I've got all that too, lathe, mill, drill press, press, wilton vices etc etc,

even a welder,


we are living in 2020 with equipment that has been around in one form or another for 150 yrs or more,


look how much that has changed in that time,


imagine if you can, how much more it can change by 2170


we are not in a place we can make it to the moon for extended stays,, muchless mars or the belt,,,,,,



yet

[PWC]

"In the year 2525, if man is still alive..."

[S.A. Boggs]

"In the year 2525, if man is still alive..."

Togey will still be spouting lies.
Sam