Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

2023-02-01 Thread Anton Clemens via Meteorite-list
Chris/Alfredo,Well said. Regards,Anton Clemens Original message From: Michael Gilmer via Meteorite-list Date: 2/1/23 10:17 (GMT+09:00) To: Alfredo Petrov Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

2023-01-31 Thread Michael Gilmer via Meteorite-list
The Daily Star is tabloid trash and no better than the National Enquirer. I wouldn't take anything seriously if it's published by that outlet. On 1/31/23, Alfredo Petrov via Meteorite-list wrote: > This news report rather distorts the meaning of the word "worth". It's not > "worth" quadrillions

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

2023-01-31 Thread Alfredo Petrov via Meteorite-list
This news report rather distorts the meaning of the word "worth". It's not "worth" quadrillions of $$$. It's not "worth" anything at all, because the costs of cutting it up and lowering it down through Earth's gravity well (safely, without destroying all civilization) far exceeds the value of the m

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

2023-01-31 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
To be fair, we are sitting right now on a planet worth a lot more than that! And we don't have to go anywhere to investigate it. Resource quantity isn't really the problem. It's accessing those resources. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https://www.

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

2023-01-31 Thread AL Mitterling via Meteorite-list
Hi Dirk and all, Quote: "A rocket carrying sensitive equipment designed to observe one of the largest asteroids in our galaxy will launch from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in October 2023" I didn't realize that they had cataloged all of the asteroids in the galaxy yet. 😉 --AL Mitterling Mitt

[meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

2023-01-30 Thread drtanuki via Meteorite-list
Dear List,   Article in news, "NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70,000 times more than the global economy". https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/nasa-set-spacex-launch-date-29085874 Best Always, Dirk Ross...Tokyo __ Meteorite-list mailing lis