This Rare Asteroid May Be Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy. Now NASA Is Sending a Spaceship

[winetourdriver01]

If all goes to plan, the spacecraft will arrive at 16 Psyche in August 2029.
The space agency decided back in 2017 that humankind would benefit from a closer look at 16 Psyche. The Psyche mission was initially slated to take place at the end of 2022 but was delayed due to “development problems.” NASA is now planning to launch the Psyche spacecraft this October. The vessel should reach the ultra-valuable asteroid in August 2029.

Here’s everything we know so far about the Psyche asteroid, the upcoming Psyche mission and the Psyche spacecraft.

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[House of Roberts]

1. Iron and nickel.

If they could just kindly bring the asteroid back, every person on the planet—all 7.5 billion of us—would get roughly $1.3 billion.

https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/rare-psyche-asteroid-worth-way-more-than-the-global-economy-1234577976/

If the entire asteroid was recoverable, the value of iron and nickel would drop much lower, as those metals would no longer be scarce at all. Anyway, some rich fuck would figure out how he should get all that wealth. If everybody got an equal share, imagine how high inflation would get.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. If they could bring the asteroid back, a few people would get trillions, ...

... or quadrillions. Most people on the planet would get a slag-heap on their yard with a police order to move it.

Don't count on equitable distribution.

[lapfog_1]

2. I have an idea...

its too hard to mine the asteroid which is located between the orbit of Mars and that of Jupiter. We know how to move a asteroid... so lets move it into a new orbit that intersects with earth... and pick a place to "land it" like Texas or Arizona or Mongolia. After it lands we can mine it for thousands of years for all the metal it has.

There might be a few safety issues... so we should build a really big space station for the wealthy and important people and evacuate them first... but after the earth cools down again in a few hundred years... think of how much money everyone that survived will be worth!!!



Someone should write this as a movie script... oh wait...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Safety schmafety

It should be fine

[lapfog_1]

4. It's only 140 miles in diameter

The earth is nearly 7900 miles in diameter!

No problem... hardly even feel it. really. I mean, how bad can that be???

[EYESORE 9001]

6. I've burned the roof of my mouth while eating hot pizza

so I’m no stranger to adversity.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Maybe we could hire China to attach a really really big balloon to it ... nt

[lapfog_1]

10. it only has a mass of 9.6 trillion tons

if it was solid iron...

nothing to worry about.

and, yes, I did the math on this.

[Thunderbeast]

5. Do they have a camera that can image a living brontroc?

Meryl Streep is asking...

[rsdsharp]

7. Robert Heinlein write about asteroid mining in his juvenile novel The Rolling Stones

in 1952. He also invented tribbles in the same book, although he called them Martian flat cats.