Water

What is the math regarding water equaling life?

What is the math extrapolating earth, Mars, Europa having water equaling life?

Don't forget, they've found water on the moon recently.

(09-28-2015 06:38 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Don't forget, they've found water on the moon recently.

Pretty amazing stuff really. I think they will verify life on another planet in my lifetime. I was born in the late 1960's. Talk about "one giant leap....."!

Can't wait for that first $100K bottle of "Dasani Mars Water".

(09-29-2015 02:13 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  Can't wait for that first $100K bottle of "Dasani Mars Water".

It'll cost more than that. One month of production would just about devoid Mars of water.

I would like to know what mineral resources Mars has.

It seems to me that the course of events to follow will be that they find "some kind of life" on the Moon and Mars but that it will be blamed on EARTH contamination. IMO, Percolation will set Mars apart.

(09-30-2015 08:37 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  I would like to know what mineral resources Mars has.

If we're looking for minerals in space, asteroids provide a much better - and far easier - target. Many are almost pure mineral content, depending on the asteroid you choose. But asteroids come in several varieties. There are C-type, X-type, S-type asteroids.

Planetary Resources: The Asteroid Mining Company Wrote:C-type asteroids are very dark in color, and may be the most common. They closely follow the elemental composition of the sun, which leads scientists to conclude that C-type asteroids are very primitive objects, formed at the dawn of the solar system. Planetary Resources will mine water from the C-type asteroids.



X-type asteroids are composed of primarily metal. They appear to be the remnants of large (> 100 km) asteroids that fully separated into a core and mantle. Some of the these large asteroids were pulverized in massive collisions early in the Solar System’s history leaving only the tough metallic cores they have today. They are known for being extremely dense, unlike any metallic ore bodies we find on Earth today. One of Planetary Resources targets is an X-type asteroid, and may have more platinum that has ever been mined on Earth to date.



S-type asteroids are a mixture of rock and metal mixed together. These rocky asteroids dominate the inner portion of the Main Belt and are often found as near-Earth objects. Scientists believe they are the source of the chondrite meteorites, which are the most commonly found meteorite. These are composed of material that was heated to melting but never separated from the rock as happened with similar ore bodies on Earth.

Everything mankind needs is out there waiting. All we have to do is go get it, and some people are already exploring that avenue.

Planetary Reasources: The Asteroid Mining Company

(10-01-2015 11:22 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(09-30-2015 08:37 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  I would like to know what mineral resources Mars has.

If we're looking for minerals in space, asteroids provide a much better - and far easier - target. Many are almost pure mineral content, depending on the asteroid you choose. But asteroids come in several varieties. There are C-type, X-type, S-type asteroids.

Planetary Resources: The Asteroid Mining Company Wrote:C-type asteroids are very dark in color, and may be the most common. They closely follow the elemental composition of the sun, which leads scientists to conclude that C-type asteroids are very primitive objects, formed at the dawn of the solar system. Planetary Resources will mine water from the C-type asteroids.



X-type asteroids are composed of primarily metal. They appear to be the remnants of large (> 100 km) asteroids that fully separated into a core and mantle. Some of the these large asteroids were pulverized in massive collisions early in the Solar System’s history leaving only the tough metallic cores they have today. They are known for being extremely dense, unlike any metallic ore bodies we find on Earth today. One of Planetary Resources targets is an X-type asteroid, and may have more platinum that has ever been mined on Earth to date.



S-type asteroids are a mixture of rock and metal mixed together. These rocky asteroids dominate the inner portion of the Main Belt and are often found as near-Earth objects. Scientists believe they are the source of the chondrite meteorites, which are the most commonly found meteorite. These are composed of material that was heated to melting but never separated from the rock as happened with similar ore bodies on Earth.

Everything mankind needs is out there waiting. All we have to do is go get it, and some people are already exploring that avenue.

Planetary Reasources: The Asteroid Mining Company

Thanks. I knew a few things about the asteroid mining. I find myself amazed by what all is going on.

(10-01-2015 04:12 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  

(10-01-2015 11:22 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(09-30-2015 08:37 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  I would like to know what mineral resources Mars has.

If we're looking for minerals in space, asteroids provide a much better - and far easier - target. Many are almost pure mineral content, depending on the asteroid you choose. But asteroids come in several varieties. There are C-type, X-type, S-type asteroids.

Planetary Resources: The Asteroid Mining Company Wrote:C-type asteroids are very dark in color, and may be the most common. They closely follow the elemental composition of the sun, which leads scientists to conclude that C-type asteroids are very primitive objects, formed at the dawn of the solar system. Planetary Resources will mine water from the C-type asteroids.



X-type asteroids are composed of primarily metal. They appear to be the remnants of large (> 100 km) asteroids that fully separated into a core and mantle. Some of the these large asteroids were pulverized in massive collisions early in the Solar System’s history leaving only the tough metallic cores they have today. They are known for being extremely dense, unlike any metallic ore bodies we find on Earth today. One of Planetary Resources targets is an X-type asteroid, and may have more platinum that has ever been mined on Earth to date.



S-type asteroids are a mixture of rock and metal mixed together. These rocky asteroids dominate the inner portion of the Main Belt and are often found as near-Earth objects. Scientists believe they are the source of the chondrite meteorites, which are the most commonly found meteorite. These are composed of material that was heated to melting but never separated from the rock as happened with similar ore bodies on Earth.

Everything mankind needs is out there waiting. All we have to do is go get it, and some people are already exploring that avenue.

Planetary Reasources: The Asteroid Mining Company

Thanks. I knew a few things about the asteroid mining. I find myself amazed by what all is going on.

Space - The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of commercial enterprise.

This isn't related to what we've been discussing. But it could have a major effect on future plans for space.

(10-01-2015 06:40 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-01-2015 04:12 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  

(10-01-2015 11:22 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(09-30-2015 08:37 PM)hawghiggs Wrote:  I would like to know what mineral resources Mars has.

If we're looking for minerals in space, asteroids provide a much better - and far easier - target. Many are almost pure mineral content, depending on the asteroid you choose. But asteroids come in several varieties. There are C-type, X-type, S-type asteroids.

Planetary Resources: The Asteroid Mining Company Wrote:C-type asteroids are very dark in color, and may be the most common. They closely follow the elemental composition of the sun, which leads scientists to conclude that C-type asteroids are very primitive objects, formed at the dawn of the solar system. Planetary Resources will mine water from the C-type asteroids.



X-type asteroids are composed of primarily metal. They appear to be the remnants of large (> 100 km) asteroids that fully separated into a core and mantle. Some of the these large asteroids were pulverized in massive collisions early in the Solar System’s history leaving only the tough metallic cores they have today. They are known for being extremely dense, unlike any metallic ore bodies we find on Earth today. One of Planetary Resources targets is an X-type asteroid, and may have more platinum that has ever been mined on Earth to date.



S-type asteroids are a mixture of rock and metal mixed together. These rocky asteroids dominate the inner portion of the Main Belt and are often found as near-Earth objects. Scientists believe they are the source of the chondrite meteorites, which are the most commonly found meteorite. These are composed of material that was heated to melting but never separated from the rock as happened with similar ore bodies on Earth.

Everything mankind needs is out there waiting. All we have to do is go get it, and some people are already exploring that avenue.

Planetary Reasources: The Asteroid Mining Company

Thanks. I knew a few things about the asteroid mining. I find myself amazed by what all is going on.

Space - The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of commercial enterprise.

More like Aliens. But big picture. The space ships we will build someday will dwarf the Enterprise. One day we will build ships as big as the American continent if not bigger. We will travel the universe in search of resources and the unknown. Imagine a vessel that had its own freshwater lakes and forest. Imagine having to take a plane to get to the other side of this ship. Funny, What dreams might come.

You should read Larry Niven's Ringworld, if you want to see an example of somebody dreaming of really big engineering projects. It's just one step below a Dyson sphere.