Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:20:50 UTC No. 16582619

>>16582593
>we
Why can't you?

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:21:32 UTC No. 16582620

>>16582593
Imagine you have a perfectly beautiful little tree - the leaves provide shade for the grasses beneath it, which provide shade to the bacteria in the soil, keeping the soil alive; the trunk and branches of the tree provide shelter to many species of small mammals, insects, birds, all of which have their own niches and functions; the roots of the tree absorb rain and moisture, keeping the ground from drying out and eroding, they share nutrients with other trees and with mycelium that spreads throughout the forest. The leaves of the tree, it's fruit, if it has any, it's bark, the grasses around it and the moisture in the soil provide food and sustenance to many more species, anything from deer to aphids, which then also provide food to predatorial species, in turn preventing the trees from being eaten.
Capitalism is when you cut that tree down to get land and wood, which you will use to build a house that will decay in 50 years, so that we can house more of ourselves;
When we practice agriculture where the tree used to stand so that we can make more of ourselves, which will degrade the area until it erodes away and becomes desert;
When we kill all of the animals that lived there so we can make more of ourselves.
It's when you do all of these things and then scratch your head when the world has turned into an overcrowded desert and think: "How could I not have access to food, shelter, clothing, clean air or water, when I'm a millionaire?"
Why does it have to be this way, you ask? Because short-term profits are more certain and therefore more valuable than long-term profits.
And so we consume and deplete the planet, hoping that space aliens or Jesus Christ will come down from the sky to save us from ourselves once it is unrecoverably dead.

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:23:29 UTC No. 16582625

>>16582593
why mine it in space? makes more sense to send it in some shallow water and go collect it. break it up in smaller chunks so no damage. simpler and cheaper overall. you'd still need to send that shit down after you mine it.

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:34:08 UTC No. 16582640

>>16582619
NTA, but OP likely will not have access to Heavy Booster / Starship by the launch window which is 2028.

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:57:19 UTC No. 16582666

>>16582593
Fuck asteroid 2032, go get Davida

As per your question I imagine some people aren't ready to crash the economy? I'm not certain but some asteroids would cause some pretty amazing upheavals in the rare ore markets.

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:57:10 UTC No. 16582756

>>16582593
is there anything on it worth the 50 thousand dollars per gram of mining expenses, or can we maybe obtain that same materiel locally here on earth for far less investment?

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:34:52 UTC No. 16582948

>>16582593
You need way to omuch delta v to get it into lunar gravity and also a lot of delta v to put it into an earth centered orbit (in a Lagrange point, perhaps?)

>>16582666
>Davida
What? Isn't that 16 Psyche?

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:47:58 UTC No. 16583583

>>16582593
UNI SUGOI

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:45:27 UTC No. 16583624

>>16582593
If hobby rocketry was less regulated we would already be constantly mining asteroids and everyone would be rich

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:48:56 UTC No. 16583631

>>16583624
>everyone would be rich
lol how can people be this retarded lmao

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:06:36 UTC No. 16583648

>>16582593
Why the heck? It's asteroid we prayed for to destroy niggers in Africa.

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:48:21 UTC No. 16583715

>>16582593
Because there are people in the equation i'm sorry but it can't.

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:55:11 UTC No. 16583723

Given the median net worth in capitalist society, jack shit gets saved under capitalism.

Anonymous at Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:35:07 UTC No. 16584490

>>16583723
as long as humans are required for work they have to be forced to do it. that can only happen two ways, you risk dying with no shelter or food, or you work at gun point. there's no amount of riches in the universe that would change that. somebody gotta go for the resources, process them, and make all the shit we all need. let alone any entertainment and what have you.

Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:12:08 UTC No. 16585664

>>16582620
I will cut down that tree for housing my harem. Cope and seethe