Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
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You ever spend a little too much time on the internet and decide you really want to see what living on another planet might be like? Well I’ve got some bad news… if you thought the San Francisco housing market was out of control you’re not going to believe what a townhouse goes for on Mars. The components of your average one story house weigh somewhere around 100 tons. Considering it costs minimum of $10,000 per pound to shoot something to space, a Mars move would cost roughly 2 billion dollars. But maybe the answer to cheap space construction is already out there? The most practical way to build stuff in space is to do it… with other stuff in space. And until they open the first hardware store outside of earth’s gravity well, our best bet is asteroids. [...
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You ever spend a little too much time on the internet and decide you really want to see what living on another planet might be like? Well I’ve got some bad news… if you thought the San Francisco housing market was out of control you’re not going to believe what a townhouse goes for on Mars. The components of your average one story house weigh somewhere around 100 tons. Considering it costs minimum of $10,000 per pound to shoot something to space, a Mars move would cost roughly 2 billion dollars. But maybe the answer to cheap space construction is already out there? The most practical way to build stuff in space is to do it… with other stuff in space. And until they open the first hardware store outside of earth’s gravity well, our best bet is asteroids. [...
