Probably, but not in our lifetimes I bet.

Space rock mining will be profitable eventually, but not for a 3 or 5 thousand years worth of global corporations turning the ground under your feet into swiss cheese to get the valuable materials out.

It's probably gonna turn out to be a giant nothingburger as once super intelligence promotes to God-Intelligence, it turns out you can create matter from energy and the sun has a near infinite supply of the stuff. And so any element on the periodic table cheapens to the price of dirt, or more specifically, the effort in powering the materials replicators.

The people selling such things for the 2xxx century are selling moonshine and selling ocean front real estate on planet Uranus to dipshits.

>>510770101 (OP)
Depends on the asteroids. If someone can scan enough rocks and find one that has like a few thousand tons of precious metal, then yes.

>>510770669
Not just precious metals but also more common metals, because once there's enough industry in space it'll be economical to source the materials you need for that industry from places where it's not so expensive to launch from.

>>510770511
but why

>>510770101 (OP)
Space mining is the most Jewish idea ever conceived after deep-sea strip-mining.

>>510770101 (OP)
Yes but not how people think of it right now.

>>510770101 (OP)
it would be very profitable to functionally immortal corporations. but not very much to human investors who'd like to see a return during their lifetime. maybe when we have AI robots running around who think they're long dead billionaires

>>510770101 (OP)
are they hauling one of my poops to Fecal Prime?

>>510770101 (OP)
if you banned terrestrial mining

>>510770101 (OP)
Unless jews, jeets, niggers and chinks are removed from this plane of existence space anything is pretty much forfeit.

>>510770101 (OP)
Sorry jew, but profit is a trap laid out by the white man to ensnare small minded jews

>>510770101 (OP)
We already have huge potential on Earth and we're still too weak to take advantage of most of it. Asteroid mining is something for a date a thousand years from now provided we haven't regressed back to agrarian shithut living.

>>510770261
I firmly believe we wont ever colonize mars or mine asteroids etc unless we have a viable mood base or orbital colony. Capable of Ship production .

>>510770101 (OP)
easily. it could be right now and we could do it right now.
the problem is its like a ~14 year round trip with alot of risk involved, not including mining time.
sure, if it succeeds you absolutely would turn a massive profit, but the problem is the startup cost for a profit 14+ years down the line that might fail is something no one would invest in, especially in our current environment where everything is sacrificed for as much profit as soon as possible.

space travel simply needs to get faster before anyone will do it, and at the moment people barely are able to convince anyone to even send up rockets past our orbit in the first place.
if someone can prove a faster method of making travel within our own system at worst like a year round trip, then you'll see people start investing.

>>510770101 (OP)
>Will space mining ever be profitable?
Yes, once the council figures out how to get the thralls back to work.

>>510770101 (OP)
With AI robots. Possibly.

>>510770101 (OP)
Yes, obviously. As soon as self sustaining industrial manufacturing can be brought online, every rock out there will get self assembling, AI controlled, nanobots dropped on it.
>Earth powers will have sector defense responsibilities to protect from inevitable trajectory problems. A superpower will be defined as capable of continental defense, self sufficient launches/exploration/mining/recovery, and nano-machines/AI proprietary owner. Associated countries will choose an umbrella, industrial pathway, and IP licence. Its coming faster than people can imagine.

>>510776567
>>510775420
Mining pollution is huge to create lets say a space fleet of ships would pollute a entire county or two on earth. This can happen but it would result in lower life expectancy this is not viable considering our atmosphere cant hand us sending large amount of metals etc into space.

Instead we need we HAVE to colonize the moon, and establish shipyards and foundaries. Otherwise mass space colonies nor mars colonies can ever be established.

We just don't need to bring in lesser races or ese we jeopardize the entire human space colonization process.

>>510775919
No really, one anon mentioned nanobots, which realistically wont work. The cost and weight of what we send into space from earth is the problem.

We need a near weightless foundry and space ship yard before any real galactic mining can ever occur.

>>510770101 (OP)
No, space is fake and gay.

https://old.bitchute.com/video/9pUT0VAuAHij/

Miner, calm down

>>510776771
Everything will be done with nanomachines and AI. Small packages are very easy to get places, and once there they can take as long as necessary to perform whatever work is necessary. Anything human related will be in LEO or possibly a small command module on the moon. AI really solves most of the space travel issues and the *speed* problem will be fixed by the time martian terraforming begins.

>>510776870
>which realistically wont work
You should have told Elon before they worked.
>Processing can be performed by more complicated assemblies closer to earth. Trajectory control can be done with AI and nanobots today.

>>510777226
To elaborate: there will be approach corridors rocks are sent on in a stream, lasers can be used to reduce size and approach velocity, traction fields (converged waves at oblique angles) can perform approach sorting, and then each block of ore is directed into an appropriate processing station. This is effectively doable with today's technology. But a lunar gas station is needed and that will allow all other industrial processes to function.

>>510777501
I don't want private corporations shitting up the moon.

Our moon is not your trashcan. We all fave to look at it

>>510770101 (OP)
Sure, but not for people on Earth. Pushing stuff out and back into our gravity well is just too much of an ordeal for it ever to be profitable. Now, set up some refining stations at lagrange points and shuttle highly refined goods out of them to other stations and occasionally back into large gravity wells, and that may well make sense. Mostly though space mining won't be for profit so much as it will be a requirement for infrastructure establishment in space. But first we're going to need to figure out the propulsion problem in terms of some sort of tech in the ballpark of ion propulsion levels of isp but with usable levels of total thrust as we've already basically squeezed everything chemical rockets have to offer that's suitable for use anywhere near our atmosphere at industrial scales.

>>510777226
>>510777501
I see what your saying but the reason i say it will fail is bc they wont be able to build to a level humans need . They would start and possibly create complex systems but humans would need to come in with more specialized AI to make what they made as a foundation into something more viable.

>>510777501
>>510777226
Sure some nano bots which are super expensive in these terms can build and replicate, but what they will ultimately make is something for Humans are better AI to work off of. Sure they can build some structures and some machines but without humans and input and better ai and better nanotech then its nothing more than foundation blocks.

>>510779016
>ballpark of ion propulsion levels of isp but with usable levels of total thrust

nuclear thermal, but idk if it could be safe enough to operate that in near earth space.

I am curious if you can freeze hydrogen and helium out of the solar wind to use as fuel.

>>510770261
Depends on how technology goes, my grandparents (88,84,93,87) went through some crazy tech changes in their lives.

>>510779400
when I read this I thought your grandparent (singular) was 88,849,387 years old. gotta lay off the meth

>Have access to the technology, resources, and manpower needed for not only interstellar travel, but such an advanced form of interstellar travel that one can formulate industry-grade mining on other celestial bodies
>"BUT CAN WE USE IT TO CLIP A FEW MORE COINS, GOYIM!???"
I earnestly pray that either humanity is obliterated in nuclear hellfire or that every one of you longnose shorthats are mercilessly brought to extinction. This species has no hope as long as abstractions like this are our motivators, and whatever kike came up with them and has poisoned the minds of countless billions of humans needs to be hunted down in whatever afterlife he's been consigned to and forced to watch as his kind are put to the knife, torch, and bullet-riddled wall until they are nothing more than a distant memory.

>>510779400
I don't think technology is much of a barrier, just that it currently and for the foreseeable future it wouldn't profit anyone to do this.

>>510779781
But that is a tech barrier. If you can send out a mining drone for 200 million to get 201 million worth of precious metal it's worth it. And any meteor/comet is gonna be worth trillions it's just a matter of tech.

>>510780052
If you can spend 200 million to get back 400 million instead then then your choice is clear. And what if your expensive drone ends up being lost?
It's not just a matter of tech, plenty of sci-fi stuff has been technically viable for many decades.

>>510780276
It's just a matter of execution.

>>510770101 (OP)
You space mine because you love space mining not for money. Not everything is about money

>>510781067
thats a neat idea. mind if I steal it?

>>510781067
This dude grinds

>>510770101 (OP)
All of space will become profitable if the cost to orbit decreases enough.

>>510770101 (OP)
Not unless we kick out all the Indians

>>510770101 (OP)
space mining doesnt exist, it will never exist and its just like schmelongs rockets to nowhere. who told you that you can farm ressources in a sea of plasma? must have been a retard, good that im here to tell you something worthwhile.

>>510770101 (OP)
Space is fake. Secret societies faked it.

>>510770101 (OP)
Schooling Globers - Episode 34 (The Core of the Globe Belief)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTIFsHH5i6U

The Earth is NOT Flat After All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2YMZMOjz-c

Relatively Speaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIyGmw2iM1I

Middle Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_7XkneVE7Y&list=PLoeKBeKeoPx5quWw74GYIJjVQY4hAxbkf

>>510785080
people will not accept whatever is real. they will only believe the lies. youre not surrounded by people, get this out of your head.

EVEN PEOPLE ARE A HOAX!