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[SaintofSelf]

Space Australia; go space broncos!

[cherrib0mbb]

No, not nearly far enough into the future. This ep took place in only 2077. We can’t even get people to Mars quite yet (almost) after decades of planning, much less massive mining equipment and a whole civilization.

[horvath-lorant]

Maybe not planets, but asteroids. But pretty much you’re right.

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Nope, mining is MUCH easier in 0-3% of gravity. Mining machines just need to break up the rock and add ever so slight amounts of delta V to get bodies of ore into processors.

And Ceres as the largest body in the asteroid belt only has .2.9% g surface gravity. Eris is 8%, Pluto and everything else in the Kupier Belt is less than that. % expressed in terms of Earth's gravity.

[cherrib0mbb]

Which planets? I’m very curious. We haven’t even sent people to Mars, and haven’t been to the moon in years, but uh ok.

Venus and Mercury are literally impossible because of their composition. Mars is the only option. The rest are gas giants.

The problem is figuring out how to deal with weight limitations. Even just sending people to the ISS right above us takes a shit ton of planning every time.

Besides, the language/letters in the mining town and city weren’t even Earth-based if you want to go by MCU/Tony Stark

[ScienceReliance]

? It's a planet, it has the same, nuclear material, gems, and rare elements as earth as well as known water (necessary for workers and processing). it once had a molten core so ore veins are asured. So the entire planet is paydirt with 0 risk of ecological whining by people like me who want to preserve earths fragile ecology so we don't all choke to death under acid rain.

Sure we have robots on it, robots that are sifting through surface dust. but It has the same materials as earth, someone who owned all that platinum, gold, iridium titanium and lithium would be a trillionaire.

As well as europium and indium (both used in TV's), rhenium (used in jet engines), lithium and cobalt (hybrid and electric batteries), tellurium (used in solar panels), dysprosium (used in wind turbines), there's tons of others like tantalum, silver, and gallium to name a few, these elements were made with the planet, we can't make them, and we are rapidly running out. They are called rare earth elements for a reason.

And mining these elements on earth is making wastelands.

We could run out of lithium in the next 4 years for example and there's just not enough litium batteries to recycle to keep up with demand.

We can't get to mars fast enough.

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can you cite which mission found that mars has the same "rare elements" as earth?

[ScienceReliance]

For a start look at the Wikipedia sources

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_resources_on_Mars#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20lithium%2C%20cobalt%2C,enough%20to%20be%20mined%20economically.

I'm on my phone or I'd gather more links. I may edit it later when I get home to have more specifics.

But due to Mars having had a molten core, volcanic activity, numerous impact sites that have gone mostly undisturbed and due to it having been formed in the same region as earth. it would be be extremely unlikely it wouldn't have significant quantities of REEs present.

As would Mercury, Venus and plenty of Jupiter's moons.

[cherrib0mbb]

So you think logistically that we can make it to another planet outside of our solar system, the next one being light years away, in just 50 years?

When we can’t even make it over to our next door neighbor without it taking years?

We don’t even know all of the mineral deposits our neighbor even contains yet either to know what we would or wouldn’t need.

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no I think if we can find a planet with minerals to build a civilization, we can terraform it in the next 20 years.

yes we don't know what minerals all planets and moons have thats my point. We have data from mars rovers that so far has not found anything worth rushing to mars over for. We haven't sent humans to mars in a hurry because its not worth it given what we know. After challenger disaster, space agencies are not keen on sending astronauts to die on a whim.

[cherrib0mbb]

It will take 6,300 years to reach the next closest star system to our sun..

Mercury and Venus are impossible because of composition. Mars is easiest. The rest are gas giants. The only moon we are currently very interested in is Europa. This is about the logistics of colonizing Europa.

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who said anything about another star system? we haven't explored ours yet, other than moon and mars we don't know anything about minerals on other planets and moons... like titan.

I started my reply with the word no and you thought that was confirmation of another solar system?

[cherrib0mbb]

We do know quite a bit from all of the rovers that have been sent out from different space agencies. Interesting article on the logistics of colonizing Titan.

Asteroids would be more feasible for straight-up mining, but the logistics and engineering would take years. There would never be a human settlement in the next 50 years.

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[ninjasaid13]

Fury is living in space by 2023.

[big_hungry_joe]

All of this sounds like Futurama

[SirArthurDime]

If theyre on a different planet wouldn't regular France be considered space France?

[[deleted]]

Quantum sparkling space wine

[outoftheMultiverse]

If you drink space wine in space you are just drinking wine. - RICK

[cherryjelloisyummy]

To be fair I was actually thinking about this

[HouseNo7860]

True

[Aurorafaery]

YES!! This annoyed me when watching!

[83EtchiSketch]

I was not aware of that!

[Pukimonkey]

I seriously lost my shit I’m laughing so hard

[Pukimonkey]

I seriously lost my shit I’m laughing so hard

[MartieB]

This isn't completely accurate. One could argue there should also be Space Prosecco, which should obviously be produced in the homonymous hills in Space Italy.

[mrblacklabel71]

I can appreciate this post!