Spennende tider i møte når det kommer til utforsking av verdensrommet ser det ut til. Med tanke på hvor mye vi mishandler den planeten vi har er det absolutt ikke dumt å finne ressurser et annet sted. Blir spennende å se hvor langt unna vi er punktet å gjøre forsøk på å kolonisere andre planeter.
Hei @k3nb0b
Vi er nok ikke i stand til å kolonisere noe som helst på riktig så lenge. Men vi må begynne ett sted. Og i disse dager går ting i riktig retning igjen, starten på dette århundre har hatt mange tilbakeslag når det kommer til utforskinin av verdensrommet.
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Asteroids, like all rocky planets are formed from the remains of heavy and solid elements present on site during the formation of the solar system. Gold is not more abundant than on Earth: gold is more abundant than in the earth's crust alone. In addition, gold is found on the surface as well as inside, because of the differentiation that did not occur.
This is because it is on the surface that it is much more profitable and convenient to go looking for it there! Indeed, send a space probe on an asteroid, we know how to do it and it's only a problem of cost. On the other hand, dig a hole to the center of the Earth, we do not know how to do it and it is not possible technically (we have to cross the rocky cliff at 5000 ° C and then dig into a metal core, all under pressure and unimaginable constraints).
This is why we talk (often hyperbolic still) of asteroids "filled with gold": gold is simply more accessible than on Earth and not necessarily in larger quantities.
To go further, know that all the treasures or mineral resources that are planned to mine are not gold or silver: some comets are filled with ice water. Now water, if electrolysis, we end up with hydrogen and oxygen, which is nothing other than fuel for rocket. It is therefore possible to make "gas stations" for space expeditions: it would be much more profitable there than taking fuel on Earth (which is more abundant, but weighs heavily on takeoff).
Without forgetting the solar energy: on Earth, a good part of the luminous flux received from the Sun is directly reflected in the space and another part is diffused or absorbed by the atmosphere. Space is even more conducive to the exploitation of solar energy than it is on Earth: it is not for nothing that the International Space Station (ISS), the Hubble Space Telescope or various other probes or satellites are powered by solar energy.
Finally, other chemical elements are simply absent from the earth's crust because they have flown into the inter-planetary space. This is the case of helium-3. Because of the volcanism and the modification of the continental rocks, all the helium-3 that the Earth had is no longer there today. The moon, on the other hand, has significant helium-3 resources, trapped in the rock for billions of years. This helium is a possible nuclear fuel for fusion power plants, which are much cleaner than current plants.
Hi @lovework
Thanks for bringing additional information on this topic.
Now, I wonder what the price of on gallon of water will be on the first interplanetary "gas-station" :)
As of today is't about $1700/kg with the new Falcon Heavy.
Cheers, @Onebitnews
As in science fiction movies: we send a machine that will dock with the asteroid by harpooning for example. Then all the prospecting material is brought down. Then, either refining on site or bringing the ore back for processing on land.
Of course, we will attack, preferably, the asteroids that pass closest to the earth. There are about 15,000, so there is a lot of choice.
Hi @redouanemez
Good question, it is possible to scout and find the right one to prospect from earth using telescopes and spectroscopy.
Cheers, @Onebitnews
Based on physico-chemical measurements of the Mercury planet crust carried out by the NASA Messenger probe between 2011 and 2015, as well as on laboratory experiments at extreme temperatures aimed at restoring the conditions observed during crystallization. magmas, a team of geologists has managed to identify the mineralogy of the planet closest to the Sun. It is the University of Liege, in Belgium, which announced this in a statement published this Monday, December 19th, 2016.
In an experimental petrology laboratory set up at the University of Liège, Olivier Namur and Bernard Charlier, researchers at the F.R.S.-FNRS (Scientific Research Fund), succeeded in reconstituting samples of Mercury magmas. The planet, the least massive of the Solar System is one of the four telluric planets (mainly composed of rocks and metals) of our solar system with Venus, Earth and Mars.
In their study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the researchers explain having defined different regions in the northern hemisphere of Mercury, each characterized by a specific mineralogy. According to the University of Liège, this major discovery is the link between the age of these regions and the mineralogy of the lavas on their surface, which demonstrates the major role of the thermal evolution of Mercury on its volcanic history. Thus, their conclusions allow to better understand the mineralogy of Mercury and more generally the evolution of this planet.
On Mercury, the crust is of magmatic origin, resulting from the flow of lavas from the mantle between 4.2 and 3.5 billion years ago. This activity then experienced an early interruption 3.5 billion years ago, making Mercury the telluric planet that has cooled most rapidly in our Solar System.
In the same frame, the astronomers have detected the presence of water molecules in the atmosphere of the exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, a hot Jupiter located about 50 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
Related to the history of commercial spacecraft, the Tianzhou-1 ("Heavenly Ship") vessel was propelled on april 2017 from the center of Hainan, an island in southern China, by a Long March 7 rocket and began its approach to the space laboratory Tiangong-2 ("Heavenly Palace").
This laboratory is supposed to pave the way for the planned deployment of an inhabited space station in 2022, when the International Space Station (ISS) has ceased to function. The cargo ship represents a "crucial step" in the construction of this Chinese station, said the official agency China New.
the information provided above is taken from some websites related to space and scientific research.
Due to the need for conquest of space for the search for vital needs, the spacecrafts of the future will be designed as research laboratories.
We will see that liquid water is probably present in the Galaxy, perhaps even more than our solar system suggests with planets like Mars, the object of all fantasies since the formulation of the hypothesis of life on Earth March. On the other hand, if the presence of liquid water is a necessary condition for the appearance of life, it certainly does not appear to be a sufficient condition.
It must already be remembered that only liquid water has an interest: water ice or water vapor have no particular value for life. In fact, the interest of liquid water lies in its ability to promote chemical reactions.
Living beings consist of an orderly arrangement of incredibly complex molecules: to create such structures, simple organic molecules had to react chemically together, in order to grow and transform. So it took a very special environment to allow these reactions to happen.
Are all liquids the same from the point of view of chemistry? Far from there ! Suppose we want to mix two species together in a liquid such as oil, to make them react. The heavier species tends to settle at the bottom, while the lightest tends to float. Finally, the two species remain separated and can not react effectively.
Now mix these two species in water. The molecule of water has an interesting property: it has a positively charged side, and the other negatively charged. It is said to be a "polar" molecule.
Thanks to the electrostatic attraction due to these charges, it tends to "stick" to many other species.
Thus, if we put alcohol in water, the water molecules will be eager to surround each molecule of ethanol: alcohol is dissolved in water. Although it is lighter than water, the alcohol does not float above it: a unique mixture of water and ethanol appears, each molecule of ethanol being closely "glued" to the water molecules. If this were not the case, the first to open a bottle of wine would drink pure alcohol, while the following would be satisfied with the juice of grapes below
Hi @agdali
You are right, life boils down to chemistry in the end, or beginning... Depending on how you see it.
According to Jeremy England the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.”
More on that topic here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/
Thanks for the additional information to our article.
I believe asteroid mining will be huge, your thoughts on refueling stations and being able to gather water without having to carry it is definitely something that needs to be watched!
I think also in the future there will be many space colonies and construction companies that will prosper.
Food production should also be right up there on the top of the list.
Hi @tbnfl4sun
You are right, there is a huge amount of stuff that we humans need to bring with us if we are to venture further into space than the ISS. So hopefully it is going to be good times for all sorts of contractors over the next years.
Cheer, @Onebitnews
According to the UN and as written on the comment written by @mahassan companies don't own the asteroid and all the extra-atmospheric objects. This does not allow them to exploit them and gain profit.
Hi @Suoada,
Companies can mine for resources, but not claim ownership to different asteroids.
Space is reserved for the benefit and is the province of all mankind.
Cheers, @Onebitnews
Yes @tbnfl4sun what you say is totally true unfortunately every scientific discovery becomes after an opportunity for commercial exploitations and so it is normal to plan colonies also in space.
Wow, dette var interessant lesning. Har egentlig ikke tenkt så mye over alle mulighetene det er ved gruvedrift i rommet, men etter å ha sovet på det så gir det jo mening at det er det som er fremtiden. Jeg tror neste kapittel innenfor kommersiell romfart er kortere private reiser, la oss kalle det 'charterreiser i rommet'. Privat aktør med romstasjon ala ISS, hvor romturister kan reise for å få smaken av rommet. Det er for meg et logisk steg på veien mot planeter som Mars.
Kommersiell gruvedrift i verdensrommet vil komme. Tror det eneste som trengs er at man kommer opp med en måte man kan utnytte ressursene der de utvinnes. 3D printing vil da være avgjørende for å bygge ting i verdensrommet. Blir for omfattende med store fabrikker.
Holder på tiden på å lese boka The Martian. Har ikke sett filmen, men boka er veldig bra. Her får man et innblikk i hvordan luftrensning, vanngjenvinning, dyrking av mat etc kan foregå. I tillegg er det en veldig bra og spennende historie.
Anbefalar alle som har muligheit til å sjå National Geographic serien MARS. Veldig god og realistisk serie om dei første menneska som reiser til, nettopp, Mars.
Personleg tykkjer eg utviklinga i romfarten går seint. Kanskje vi må få i gang ein kald krig att, slik at vi får eit nytt kappløp. På den andre sida har vi jo ikkje utforska alt av vår eigen planet enda. Vi har ikkje kartlagt havbotn feks.
Hei @Driftnerd
Orker ikke å leve med duck and cover kampanjer bare for at noen skal få dra til Mars (Og jeg ikke får bli med) Enig i at 2000 tallet ikke har innfridd og du er nok inne på noe. I fredstid er romfart en utgift.
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2016 saw the launch of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft with a bold mission: to meet an asteroid, collect samples and bring them back to Earth. A 7-year expedition involving Canadian researchers.
The asteroid in question is called Bennu. At a height of 500 meters - about the size of the Empire State Building in New York - it revolves around the Sun and passes near our planet. Bennu is one of the asteroids known as NEOs, that is to say, who evolve near the Earth. Like others, it is part of the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter.
Bennu, named after an Egyptian deity, has the advantage of being located at a reasonable distance from the Earth, which allows to go there in a relatively short time. In this case, Osiris-Rex will take a little less than two years to get to the asteroid.
This mission could even pave the way for the possibility of deflecting an asteroid threatening the Earth. Bennu himself would represent a certain threat to the Earth, but imprecise and expected in a few hundred years.
The collection of samples on Bennu will be done in a very special way: the probe will approach the asteroid and take its samples for just five seconds.
But what will they look for up there that we do not find here below? First, precious metals like platinum. Metals whose needs, especially for electronic equipment, are more and more important and are very rare on Earth. For example, it is estimated that a 500-meter asteroid could contain more platinum than has ever been extracted from the earth's subsoil. What excite some lusts.
The second precious element in space is water. It may seem paradoxical, but water in space is a way to get oxygen and hydrogen ... fuel for rockets. Today, sending fuel into orbit is prohibitively expensive. If it could be manufactured directly on site, it would provide the opportunity to refuel without the expensive need to escape the gravitational pull.
Earth is not the only inhabited planet in the universe
Observing the stars, man understood that our Earth is only a planet of a small solar system bordering a branch of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is a hundred thousand light-years in diameter.
1 / The man also understood that observing the stars, he observed his cosmic past, since, for example, the sunlight was emitted 8 minutes before we tan, and the galaxies we see today are as they were a few thousand or millions of years ago, but to observe them as they are today, we would have to project ourselves into the future ... which means that everything we perceive has already occurred!
2 / The telescopes and satellites responsible for observing the universe have discovered that our galaxy is part of a well-ordered cluster of galaxies which itself is part of a super-cluster of galaxies whose size is 500 million light years. It has been observed that movements between galaxies are organized, like water, in currents, falls and deltas by a super-attractor of masses appearing to be in the center.
3 / Our universe visible and observed by our telescopes (barely 7% estimated from the real universe) contains thousands of super-clusters of galaxies that contain hundreds of billions of solar systems and thousands of billions of planets where the life is plentiful for at least 10% of them (according to the Drake equation) and not necessarily at the primitive stage, we must face the fact that we are certainly not the only civilization in the universe!
4 / Another point which obliges us to a certain humility: the normal atomic material of which we are made and which composes the planets, the stars, the asteroids, the galaxies, the stellar gases represents only 5% of the mass of the universe !!! This is only a tiny part of a universe composed mainly of dark matter (26% of the mass of the universe) and dark energy (69% of the mass of the universe) that could contain other forms of biological life still unknown, or forms of non-biological life, much more abundant than our biological life ...
5 / We, the earthlings who have been launching satellites in Space for a little more than half a century, are in the humble position of a baby who begins to explore his room from his cradle ... and who, sometimes, is confronted with displacements in other rooms of the apartment and even outside, in a stroller, how could this baby imagine that he lives a city in a region of France, la-dit France is part of Europe, one of the five continents of the Earth, planet being part of a solar system ... etc. Could this baby decree that only his visible environment is the only reality, and that the human beings he sees and of which he is aware are the only living beings in the whole of reality and that nothing else exist ?
This is why the human being continues to ask questions and spends billions of euros in the exploration of the cosmic space because he can not exclude that humanity can be part of a more global evolution!
In 2015, President Obama promulgated a law on space mining activity. Under the Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act , US companies are now allowed to extract raw materials on planets, moons, and other celestial bodies. This law guarantees companies the ownership of the materials they extract.
The Space Act came into effect following the lobbying of a group of companies that decided to focus their activities on space mining. They are named after Moon Express, Planetary Resources, and Deep Space Industries. They design spacecraft and robots for uninhabited mining missions and benefit from well-stocked investors. Larry Page, co-founder of Google and a billionaire, is one of the financiers of Planetary Resources.
"An asteroid a hundred meters in diameter can shelter for billions of euros of precious metals."
Moon Express is racing in the lead. In 2016, the US administration granted its' permission to proceed with the first commercial moon landing. This moon exploration mission is scheduled for 2017. Within a decade, Moon Express wants to be able to bring raw materials back to earth and sell them.
The only "constitution" that pertains to outer space is the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. This text is forbidden to countries outside the United States. The United States Space Act goes against this treaty. How can an State grants ownership of an asteroid's resources to a company if he does not own the it?
Russia has affirmed that all space resources fall under the non-appropriation clause and has qualified the US law as unacceptable.
Where else can liquid water be found elsewhere in the galaxy? The first constraint is related to the conditions of temperature and pressure.
Planets of the Solar System and water
The Solar System gives us valuable information about the possibilities of existence of liquid water.
The eight planets of the Solar System are very clearly divided into two categories: the four planets closest to the Sun are small and rocky ("telluric planets"), the four most distant planets are enormous and mainly constituted of gas ("gas giants "). But this distinction is associated with another fundamental difference: most gaseous giant satellites are mostly water ice, while terrestrial planets are rather poor in water (including the Earth, where the oceans are deep only 2 kilometers while the rocky body is 6,380 km radius ...). These two findings are interrelated:
far from the Sun, the water is present in the form of ice. As it is a very abundant molecule, it has been added significantly to the mass of rock bodies during the formation of the Solar System. Thanks to the weakness of solar radiation, these large rock nuclei have retained the lightest gases such as helium and dihydrogen: since these two gases are by far the most abundant in the universe, these planets have grown inordinately up to to become gaseous giants, surrounded by a procession of frozen satellites;
near the Sun, the intensity of radiation has tended to break any molecule of water in the space vacuum, and water has not been added to the mass of rock bodies. In addition, these radiations prevented light gases such as helium and dihydrogen from accumulating on the surface: the planets could only retain a fine atmosphere above water-poor rock bodies.
Speaking of technology I would like to talk about e-health
E-health, describes all health-related means and services that use new information and communication technologies. E-health uses the Internet, smartphone applications and connected objects.
E-health includes:
Telehealth, which includes acts of prevention and care carried out at a distance: information via public portals, health promotion sites, telephone alert systems, remote electronic prescriptions, etc.
Telemedicine (medical acts carried out remotely by a doctor): consultation by videoconference, tele-assistance of a doctor during an intervention, telemonitoring of the patient, tele-expertise (exchange of the opinions of the doctors) ...
The m-health (mobile health) which includes digital applications for smartphones or connected objects (bracelets ...) related to health.
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Spennende tider i møte når det kommer til utforsking av verdensrommet ser det ut til. Med tanke på hvor mye vi mishandler den planeten vi har er det absolutt ikke dumt å finne ressurser et annet sted. Blir spennende å se hvor langt unna vi er punktet å gjøre forsøk på å kolonisere andre planeter.
Hei @k3nb0b
Vi er nok ikke i stand til å kolonisere noe som helst på riktig så lenge. Men vi må begynne ett sted. Og i disse dager går ting i riktig retning igjen, starten på dette århundre har hatt mange tilbakeslag når det kommer til utforskinin av verdensrommet.
Hilsen @Onebitnews
Gold in asteroids
Asteroids, like all rocky planets are formed from the remains of heavy and solid elements present on site during the formation of the solar system. Gold is not more abundant than on Earth: gold is more abundant than in the earth's crust alone. In addition, gold is found on the surface as well as inside, because of the differentiation that did not occur.
This is because it is on the surface that it is much more profitable and convenient to go looking for it there! Indeed, send a space probe on an asteroid, we know how to do it and it's only a problem of cost. On the other hand, dig a hole to the center of the Earth, we do not know how to do it and it is not possible technically (we have to cross the rocky cliff at 5000 ° C and then dig into a metal core, all under pressure and unimaginable constraints).
This is why we talk (often hyperbolic still) of asteroids "filled with gold": gold is simply more accessible than on Earth and not necessarily in larger quantities.
To go further, know that all the treasures or mineral resources that are planned to mine are not gold or silver: some comets are filled with ice water. Now water, if electrolysis, we end up with hydrogen and oxygen, which is nothing other than fuel for rocket. It is therefore possible to make "gas stations" for space expeditions: it would be much more profitable there than taking fuel on Earth (which is more abundant, but weighs heavily on takeoff).
Without forgetting the solar energy: on Earth, a good part of the luminous flux received from the Sun is directly reflected in the space and another part is diffused or absorbed by the atmosphere. Space is even more conducive to the exploitation of solar energy than it is on Earth: it is not for nothing that the International Space Station (ISS), the Hubble Space Telescope or various other probes or satellites are powered by solar energy.
Finally, other chemical elements are simply absent from the earth's crust because they have flown into the inter-planetary space. This is the case of helium-3. Because of the volcanism and the modification of the continental rocks, all the helium-3 that the Earth had is no longer there today. The moon, on the other hand, has significant helium-3 resources, trapped in the rock for billions of years. This helium is a possible nuclear fuel for fusion power plants, which are much cleaner than current plants.
Hi @lovework
Thanks for bringing additional information on this topic.
Now, I wonder what the price of on gallon of water will be on the first interplanetary "gas-station" :)
As of today is't about $1700/kg with the new Falcon Heavy.
Cheers,
@Onebitnews
1,700 $ / kg !! wow it's almost the triple of the price of silver :)
Yepp, I don't know the price of heroine... But it't "up there" I guess.
Cheers, @Onebitnews
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Agree, but how are we going to drill in space?
As in science fiction movies: we send a machine that will dock with the asteroid by harpooning for example. Then all the prospecting material is brought down. Then, either refining on site or bringing the ore back for processing on land.
Of course, we will attack, preferably, the asteroids that pass closest to the earth. There are about 15,000, so there is a lot of choice.
Hi @redouanemez
Good question, it is possible to scout and find the right one to prospect from earth using telescopes and spectroscopy.
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Yes you are right !
Based on physico-chemical measurements of the Mercury planet crust carried out by the NASA Messenger probe between 2011 and 2015, as well as on laboratory experiments at extreme temperatures aimed at restoring the conditions observed during crystallization. magmas, a team of geologists has managed to identify the mineralogy of the planet closest to the Sun. It is the University of Liege, in Belgium, which announced this in a statement published this Monday, December 19th, 2016.
In an experimental petrology laboratory set up at the University of Liège, Olivier Namur and Bernard Charlier, researchers at the F.R.S.-FNRS (Scientific Research Fund), succeeded in reconstituting samples of Mercury magmas. The planet, the least massive of the Solar System is one of the four telluric planets (mainly composed of rocks and metals) of our solar system with Venus, Earth and Mars.
In their study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the researchers explain having defined different regions in the northern hemisphere of Mercury, each characterized by a specific mineralogy. According to the University of Liège, this major discovery is the link between the age of these regions and the mineralogy of the lavas on their surface, which demonstrates the major role of the thermal evolution of Mercury on its volcanic history. Thus, their conclusions allow to better understand the mineralogy of Mercury and more generally the evolution of this planet.
On Mercury, the crust is of magmatic origin, resulting from the flow of lavas from the mantle between 4.2 and 3.5 billion years ago. This activity then experienced an early interruption 3.5 billion years ago, making Mercury the telluric planet that has cooled most rapidly in our Solar System.
In the same frame, the astronomers have detected the presence of water molecules in the atmosphere of the exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, a hot Jupiter located about 50 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
Related to the history of commercial spacecraft, the Tianzhou-1 ("Heavenly Ship") vessel was propelled on april 2017 from the center of Hainan, an island in southern China, by a Long March 7 rocket and began its approach to the space laboratory Tiangong-2 ("Heavenly Palace").
This laboratory is supposed to pave the way for the planned deployment of an inhabited space station in 2022, when the International Space Station (ISS) has ceased to function. The cargo ship represents a "crucial step" in the construction of this Chinese station, said the official agency China New.
the information provided above is taken from some websites related to space and scientific research.
Due to the need for conquest of space for the search for vital needs, the spacecrafts of the future will be designed as research laboratories.
We will see that liquid water is probably present in the Galaxy, perhaps even more than our solar system suggests with planets like Mars, the object of all fantasies since the formulation of the hypothesis of life on Earth March. On the other hand, if the presence of liquid water is a necessary condition for the appearance of life, it certainly does not appear to be a sufficient condition.
It must already be remembered that only liquid water has an interest: water ice or water vapor have no particular value for life. In fact, the interest of liquid water lies in its ability to promote chemical reactions.
Living beings consist of an orderly arrangement of incredibly complex molecules: to create such structures, simple organic molecules had to react chemically together, in order to grow and transform. So it took a very special environment to allow these reactions to happen.
Are all liquids the same from the point of view of chemistry? Far from there ! Suppose we want to mix two species together in a liquid such as oil, to make them react. The heavier species tends to settle at the bottom, while the lightest tends to float. Finally, the two species remain separated and can not react effectively.
Now mix these two species in water. The molecule of water has an interesting property: it has a positively charged side, and the other negatively charged. It is said to be a "polar" molecule.
Thanks to the electrostatic attraction due to these charges, it tends to "stick" to many other species.
Thus, if we put alcohol in water, the water molecules will be eager to surround each molecule of ethanol: alcohol is dissolved in water. Although it is lighter than water, the alcohol does not float above it: a unique mixture of water and ethanol appears, each molecule of ethanol being closely "glued" to the water molecules. If this were not the case, the first to open a bottle of wine would drink pure alcohol, while the following would be satisfied with the juice of grapes below
Hi @agdali
You are right, life boils down to chemistry in the end, or beginning... Depending on how you see it.
According to Jeremy England the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.”
More on that topic here:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/
Thanks for the additional information to our article.
Cheers, @Onebitnews
You welcom
Thank you @onebitnews
I believe asteroid mining will be huge, your thoughts on refueling stations and being able to gather water without having to carry it is definitely something that needs to be watched!
I think also in the future there will be many space colonies and construction companies that will prosper.
Food production should also be right up there on the top of the list.
Hi @tbnfl4sun
You are right, there is a huge amount of stuff that we humans need to bring with us if we are to venture further into space than the ISS. So hopefully it is going to be good times for all sorts of contractors over the next years.
Cheer, @Onebitnews
According to the UN and as written on the comment written by @mahassan companies don't own the asteroid and all the extra-atmospheric objects. This does not allow them to exploit them and gain profit.
Hi @Suoada,
Companies can mine for resources, but not claim ownership to different asteroids.
Space is reserved for the benefit and is the province of all mankind.
Cheers, @Onebitnews
Yes @tbnfl4sun what you say is totally true unfortunately every scientific discovery becomes after an opportunity for commercial exploitations and so it is normal to plan colonies also in space.
Wow, dette var interessant lesning. Har egentlig ikke tenkt så mye over alle mulighetene det er ved gruvedrift i rommet, men etter å ha sovet på det så gir det jo mening at det er det som er fremtiden. Jeg tror neste kapittel innenfor kommersiell romfart er kortere private reiser, la oss kalle det 'charterreiser i rommet'. Privat aktør med romstasjon ala ISS, hvor romturister kan reise for å få smaken av rommet. Det er for meg et logisk steg på veien mot planeter som Mars.
Kommersiell gruvedrift i verdensrommet vil komme. Tror det eneste som trengs er at man kommer opp med en måte man kan utnytte ressursene der de utvinnes. 3D printing vil da være avgjørende for å bygge ting i verdensrommet. Blir for omfattende med store fabrikker.
Holder på tiden på å lese boka The Martian. Har ikke sett filmen, men boka er veldig bra. Her får man et innblikk i hvordan luftrensning, vanngjenvinning, dyrking av mat etc kan foregå. I tillegg er det en veldig bra og spennende historie.
Anbefales på det sterkeste!
Hei @idigit,
Står herved på leselista ;)
Takk for tipset!
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Anbefalar alle som har muligheit til å sjå National Geographic serien MARS. Veldig god og realistisk serie om dei første menneska som reiser til, nettopp, Mars.
Personleg tykkjer eg utviklinga i romfarten går seint. Kanskje vi må få i gang ein kald krig att, slik at vi får eit nytt kappløp. På den andre sida har vi jo ikkje utforska alt av vår eigen planet enda. Vi har ikkje kartlagt havbotn feks.
Orker ikke å leve med duck and cover kampanjer bare for at noen skal få dra til Mars (Og jeg ikke får bli med)
Enig i at 2000 tallet ikke har innfridd og du er nok inne på noe. I fredstid er romfart en utgift.
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2016 saw the launch of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft with a bold mission: to meet an asteroid, collect samples and bring them back to Earth. A 7-year expedition involving Canadian researchers.
The asteroid in question is called Bennu. At a height of 500 meters - about the size of the Empire State Building in New York - it revolves around the Sun and passes near our planet. Bennu is one of the asteroids known as NEOs, that is to say, who evolve near the Earth. Like others, it is part of the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter.
Bennu, named after an Egyptian deity, has the advantage of being located at a reasonable distance from the Earth, which allows to go there in a relatively short time. In this case, Osiris-Rex will take a little less than two years to get to the asteroid.
This mission could even pave the way for the possibility of deflecting an asteroid threatening the Earth. Bennu himself would represent a certain threat to the Earth, but imprecise and expected in a few hundred years.
The collection of samples on Bennu will be done in a very special way: the probe will approach the asteroid and take its samples for just five seconds.
But what will they look for up there that we do not find here below? First, precious metals like platinum. Metals whose needs, especially for electronic equipment, are more and more important and are very rare on Earth. For example, it is estimated that a 500-meter asteroid could contain more platinum than has ever been extracted from the earth's subsoil. What excite some lusts.
The second precious element in space is water. It may seem paradoxical, but water in space is a way to get oxygen and hydrogen ... fuel for rockets. Today, sending fuel into orbit is prohibitively expensive. If it could be manufactured directly on site, it would provide the opportunity to refuel without the expensive need to escape the gravitational pull.
Earth is not the only inhabited planet in the universe
Observing the stars, man understood that our Earth is only a planet of a small solar system bordering a branch of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is a hundred thousand light-years in diameter.
1 / The man also understood that observing the stars, he observed his cosmic past, since, for example, the sunlight was emitted 8 minutes before we tan, and the galaxies we see today are as they were a few thousand or millions of years ago, but to observe them as they are today, we would have to project ourselves into the future ... which means that everything we perceive has already occurred!
2 / The telescopes and satellites responsible for observing the universe have discovered that our galaxy is part of a well-ordered cluster of galaxies which itself is part of a super-cluster of galaxies whose size is 500 million light years. It has been observed that movements between galaxies are organized, like water, in currents, falls and deltas by a super-attractor of masses appearing to be in the center.
3 / Our universe visible and observed by our telescopes (barely 7% estimated from the real universe) contains thousands of super-clusters of galaxies that contain hundreds of billions of solar systems and thousands of billions of planets where the life is plentiful for at least 10% of them (according to the Drake equation) and not necessarily at the primitive stage, we must face the fact that we are certainly not the only civilization in the universe!
4 / Another point which obliges us to a certain humility: the normal atomic material of which we are made and which composes the planets, the stars, the asteroids, the galaxies, the stellar gases represents only 5% of the mass of the universe !!! This is only a tiny part of a universe composed mainly of dark matter (26% of the mass of the universe) and dark energy (69% of the mass of the universe) that could contain other forms of biological life still unknown, or forms of non-biological life, much more abundant than our biological life ...
5 / We, the earthlings who have been launching satellites in Space for a little more than half a century, are in the humble position of a baby who begins to explore his room from his cradle ... and who, sometimes, is confronted with displacements in other rooms of the apartment and even outside, in a stroller, how could this baby imagine that he lives a city in a region of France, la-dit France is part of Europe, one of the five continents of the Earth, planet being part of a solar system ... etc. Could this baby decree that only his visible environment is the only reality, and that the human beings he sees and of which he is aware are the only living beings in the whole of reality and that nothing else exist ?
This is why the human being continues to ask questions and spends billions of euros in the exploration of the cosmic space because he can not exclude that humanity can be part of a more global evolution!
In 2015, President Obama promulgated a law on space mining activity. Under the Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act , US companies are now allowed to extract raw materials on planets, moons, and other celestial bodies. This law guarantees companies the ownership of the materials they extract.
The Space Act came into effect following the lobbying of a group of companies that decided to focus their activities on space mining. They are named after Moon Express, Planetary Resources, and Deep Space Industries. They design spacecraft and robots for uninhabited mining missions and benefit from well-stocked investors. Larry Page, co-founder of Google and a billionaire, is one of the financiers of Planetary Resources.
"An asteroid a hundred meters in diameter can shelter for billions of euros of precious metals."
Moon Express is racing in the lead. In 2016, the US administration granted its' permission to proceed with the first commercial moon landing. This moon exploration mission is scheduled for 2017. Within a decade, Moon Express wants to be able to bring raw materials back to earth and sell them.
The only "constitution" that pertains to outer space is the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. This text is forbidden to countries outside the United States. The United States Space Act goes against this treaty. How can an State grants ownership of an asteroid's resources to a company if he does not own the it?
Russia has affirmed that all space resources fall under the non-appropriation clause and has qualified the US law as unacceptable.
Where else can liquid water be found elsewhere in the galaxy? The first constraint is related to the conditions of temperature and pressure.
Planets of the Solar System and water
The Solar System gives us valuable information about the possibilities of existence of liquid water.
The eight planets of the Solar System are very clearly divided into two categories: the four planets closest to the Sun are small and rocky ("telluric planets"), the four most distant planets are enormous and mainly constituted of gas ("gas giants "). But this distinction is associated with another fundamental difference: most gaseous giant satellites are mostly water ice, while terrestrial planets are rather poor in water (including the Earth, where the oceans are deep only 2 kilometers while the rocky body is 6,380 km radius ...). These two findings are interrelated:
far from the Sun, the water is present in the form of ice. As it is a very abundant molecule, it has been added significantly to the mass of rock bodies during the formation of the Solar System. Thanks to the weakness of solar radiation, these large rock nuclei have retained the lightest gases such as helium and dihydrogen: since these two gases are by far the most abundant in the universe, these planets have grown inordinately up to to become gaseous giants, surrounded by a procession of frozen satellites;
near the Sun, the intensity of radiation has tended to break any molecule of water in the space vacuum, and water has not been added to the mass of rock bodies. In addition, these radiations prevented light gases such as helium and dihydrogen from accumulating on the surface: the planets could only retain a fine atmosphere above water-poor rock bodies.
Speaking of technology I would like to talk about e-health
E-health, describes all health-related means and services that use new information and communication technologies. E-health uses the Internet, smartphone applications and connected objects.
E-health includes:
Telehealth, which includes acts of prevention and care carried out at a distance: information via public portals, health promotion sites, telephone alert systems, remote electronic prescriptions, etc.
Telemedicine (medical acts carried out remotely by a doctor): consultation by videoconference, tele-assistance of a doctor during an intervention, telemonitoring of the patient, tele-expertise (exchange of the opinions of the doctors) ...
The m-health (mobile health) which includes digital applications for smartphones or connected objects (bracelets ...) related to health.
Electronic health record systems.
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