Off-World metallicity is simply offering the next great future gold-
rush x 1000, offering valuable resources that our planet as is seems
to be running out of affordable and much less failsafe options, not to
mention the past and ongoing environmental trauma caused (including
human genetic mutations, multiple cancers and premature deaths that
can be directly linked to mining and hydrocarbon extractions,
processing and their distributions).
Assuming our planet Earth isn’t going to implode on us, or that our
terrestrial metallicity of common and rare metals, minerals,
hydrocarbons and our global biodiversity are not getting depleted past
the point of no return, the only valid reason for going off-world is
simply for greater profits and less terrestrial trauma to our frail
environment that seems to be in great need of salvaging as is, not to
mention an escalating GW factor that’s compromising virtually
everything we know and supposedly cherish about our planet.
This future metallicity-rush could make gold, platinum and even
diamonds too common and perhaps even too cheap to hoard, so that kind
of puts those oligarchs of DeBeers, China and Rothschilds in a rather
poor global market devaluation situation, plus further loss of
authority. Naturally the well established defenders of our mainstream
status-quo would certainly do whatever it takes for keeping such off-
world resources as taboo, forbidden or unattainable in order to
sustain their terrestrial hoarding and artificial scarcity leverage.
Imagine what dumping a thousand tonnes of gold onto the global market
would do to its terrestrial value, or even rhodium and thorium are not
exactly cheap elements of metallicity.
Even though initially spendy for exploiting off-world mining, it’ll
mostly involve robotic processing and somewhat automated shipments
back to Earth that will likely make those previous terrestrial gold-
rush eras seem like primitive practice runs. Off-world basic
carbonado/diamond and even common ores of iron plus those high
concentrations of titanium as well as thorium, uranium and many other
heavy elements are not exactly of insignificant value, getting
especially valuable when terrestrial resources are either running on
near empty or just getting too spendy and/or too politically and human
risky to obtain, plus otherwise hoarded and artificially overvalued by
those within upper most 0.0001% (7000 individuals). Those Canadian
oil-sands represent a negative energy coefficient factor once
everything gets taken into account, not to mention the horrific
environment impact that has to include more than doubling the carbon
footprint per unit of energy, and otherwise the fracking of deep shale
in order to extract natural gas that has multiple impurities to
process out and involves multiple environmental consequences (all of
which being negative) is also not exactly a viable energy alternative
compared to the relatively failsafe thorium fueled reactors.
In addition to discovering and exploiting a treasure trove of minerals
or raw element wealth, we should also ponder that there are perhaps
safer planets or moons that humanity and all other forms of complex
biodiversity might actually better survive those future asteroid
encounters of the lithobraking impact kind. Even fast moving
molecular/nebula clouds of sufficient metallicity can become downright
lethal to surface life as we know it (such as when the nearby Sirius B
terminated into a white dwarf), as well as our own sun is perfectly
capable of tossing a fast 1e14 kg halo CME at us, which would easily
penetrate our natural global defenses and thereby cause great amounts
of damage to our less than robust infrastructure (including satellite
damage could be rather extensive), though fortunately and lucky for us
that most nasty CMEs have been under 5e13 kg, seldom exceeding 2000 km/
s nor having been directed at us. However, something of good mass
(such as a large asteroid or small planetoid) directly impacting our
sun could easily cause a 1e15 kg CME.
The mostly geothermally made toasty planet Venus offers terrific
potential of becoming safer than Earth when it comes down to surviving
a truly nasty halo CME, plus better situated and greater shielded as
for fending off cosmic energy and those passing molecular/nebula
clouds of any great metallicity, because that’s exactly what an
extremely dense atmosphere that’s continually replenished from within
kind of does. Even asteroids focused upon impacting Venus are going
to get their arrival moderated down to a dull roar due to the terrific
density of its thick atmosphere, whereas our nearly naked Earth is
eventually going to get seriously nailed at near full velocity. The
mostly geothermally heated surface of Venus is simply better protected
from solar and cosmic radiation, as well as whatever local radioactive
deposits are more than a hundred fold better shielded and/or
attenuated by way of the given density of that mostly CO2 atmosphere.
Of course there’s always a systemic risk in doing most anything on or
off-world, however the payback of mining asteroids plus that of
extracting valuable elements from our physically dark moon as well as
going for the extremely nearby planet Venus seems to suggest a way
better investment payback than our government agencies and their
contracted (public funded) partners have been allowing us to realize.
Heavy metallicity saturated asteroids like YU55 are a dime a dozen, so
to speak. This of course is simply a perfectly fair cost or
investment analogy relative to the greater worth of their metallicity
plus offering a few other off-world OASIS/gateway considerations that
could be real handy. For example, our second moon/asteroid Cruithne
would make a very good outpost/gateway and fuel depot/OASIS, although
setting up Venus L2 would certainly be much cooler, stable and
reliably passing within 100 LD every 19 months. Even LiftPort is
officially doing their LSEI version of my LSE-CM/ISS (lunar space
elevator with its enormous counter mass international space station
outpost/oasis/gateway plus having its tethered science and energy
transfer platform reaching to within 6r of Earth), though still not
nearly as ambitious as relocating our moon to Earth L1.
I would imagine processing not more than 10% from any given asteroid
is going to become worth trillions, or in the case of our moon taking
but 0.0001% (7.35e16 kg) could easily represent a hundred million
trillion ($1300/kg), or even worth a billion trillion ($13,000/kg).
Obviously extracting a millionth of the metallicity mass from our moon
couldn’t possibly hurt a damn thing, other than leaving excavated
tunnels within that robust paramagnetic basalt that can be reutilized
as future habitats and off-world infrastructure by way of TBMs
clearing out 10% of lunar volume (2.2e18 m3) from within or underneath
that thick and fully fused paramagnetic basalt crust. (that’s only
providing 220e6 m3 of extremely safe habitat for each of ten billion
of us, or 2.2e9 m3 for one billion of us, and those lunar tailings or
spoils from such extensive tunneling can just get piled up on the
surface or dumped into nearby craters for future processing)
Gold is currently at $60K/kg (should be worth at least $64K/kg by
2012), and we're being informed that terrestrial deposits likely had
something to do with asteroid impacts. I do believe the moon provides
ample evidence of asteroid impacts, and there are certainly more
spendy elements than gold, such as the value of bulk radium (Ra226)
can easily fetch $128M/kg (I’ve found other sources as having
specified a production cost of $75M/kg, although its artificial
scarcity and hoarding can easily double that).
‘Today, because of simplified methods of production, the market value
of a gram is $70,000. This means that one ounce of radium would cost
$1,960,000. The New York State Hospital at Buffalo recently bought
$300,000 worth of radium at that rate. Its records show that 800
persons have been cured of cancer since its use there. The invention
of radium emanation apparatus has helped the cause immensely.”
Ra226 at $75K/g and with market profiteers hording radium for medical
and research use, including their artificial rare-earth scarcity
charge of $1K/mg of medical dosage is a market value of $1B/kg,
compared to the nearly worthless element of platinum in bulk is only
good for $54K/kg. Besides various bulk volumes of rare metallicity,
there’s also He3 for fusion energy applications, and of course
extracting water and oxygen as byproducts of processing lunar basalt
bedrock shouldn’t be exactly worthless, and otherwise I can’t hardly
imagine our moon or Venus without radium or plutonium when they each
seem to have more than their fair share of uranium and thorium.
He3 as derived from terrestrial resources is currently pegged as worth
$4M/kg, although that price could easily tank below $1M/kg or less if
it were simply obtained from natural gas that’s still wasting the vast
bulk of it.
http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Helium#Value_of_Lunar_Heliu...
We have consistently disregard and essentially vented all the He3 in
our natural gas, just like we’ve ignored most all the He4 from the
very get-go. At 5 cents/kwhr makes He3 worth $3B/tonne, and with good
automation for obtaining He3 from natural gas should drive that
terrestrial value down below $1B/tonne, and exporting He3 from our
moon
shouldn’t be all that costly, as long as it’s not the one and only
extracted element.
Radium that gives us radon gas is actually a decay byproduct or
secondary element of going after uranium and thorium, as well as
contained in spent nuclear fuels (especially found in MOX, and of
course that element of plutonium as a metal being worth $11M/kg isn’t
exactly insignificant value). Of course terrestrial hydrocarbon
fuels have always had trace amounts of radioactive elements including
plutonium and radium, whereas essentially all of that hydrocarbon
laced with elements like plutonium and radium gets tossed into the
environment. (lucky us, and don’t even bother to ask how much helium
gets vented)
Of course going off-world for just one specific element as obtained
from our physically dark moon or from Venus would be downright silly
and spendy as hell, especially silly when so many other valuable
metallicity elements plus He3 exist.
William Mook has been telling us for years, and keeps telling us why
and how to go about gathering up, mining and processing asteroids.
Right now with existing TBM applied technology there are somewhat
limited metallicity deposits (especially of rare earths) on our
planet, whereas going off-world seems kind of unlimited, especially
when considering what our moon and the extremely nearby planet Venus
should have to offer. Thereby spending a trillion to capture a given
asteroid and setting up those mostly robotic methods of mining,
processing and exporting is less than a drop of financial investment
in the otherwise overflowing buckets of investment returns, and no
doubt those smarter than us ETs would naturally have known this. Of
course we don’t have to bother with capturing the asteroid/planetoid
Selene that’s worth 7.35e22 kg of raw elements, because it’s already
parked in a relatively stable orbit, as well as ideal for
accommodating the LSE-CM/ISS (aka Lunar Space Elevator to/from its L1)
that I’ve mentioned only a few thousand times.
Even relatively common terrestrial elements such as iron have been
causing absolutely horrific environmental trauma and terrain carnage,
not to mention the energy taken for the mining excavations, transport,
processing and finished product distribution, plus some metals having
a few social/political tensions that tend to get some of us killed.
Therefore, obtaining such metallicity elements from a passing asteroid
that’s captured, or from that of our moon or even from the extremely
nearby planet Venus seems kind of obvious, whereas each of those
having their very own unlimited renewable energy and no stinking
Greenpeace or any other tree-hugging environmentalists, biodiversity
protectors nor complex regulatory agencies to contend with, could make
our wild west seems like a preschool temper tantrum because of the
wealth and subsequent hording and greed that’ll likely happen unless
private enterprise is allowed to function without the usual social/
political or faith-based authority getting involved.
Obviously our DARPA, NASA nor any other public-funded agency of our
supposedly democratic republic are not going to step-up and announce
squat via mainstream media, or otherwise bother to educate this
generation nor even the next K12 and higher educated republic about
such off-world matters, and unfortunately our President BHO is too
preoccupied with his political damage-control issues to be of any use,
and his somewhat unproductive energy wizard Steven Chu is also in
damage-control mode, plus William Mook as our resident fly-by-rocket
and energy wizard of Oz doesn’t seem to have the necessary resources
to accomplish any of this alone. So, as long as geothermal, solar and
wind derived energy are not going to be allowed to flourish on any
large scale competitive terrestrial basis, is what kind of leaves the
rest of us with off-world alternatives that may seem like another wild
west gold-rush era.
So what the hell are the rest of us village idiots still waiting for?
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