Transiting Planet with MONSTER CORE Discovered!

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-07-02 06:23pm

By god, that would be awesome. 260 lightyears? We could be there by 4500 ad, no sweat.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-07-02 06:43pm

Enforcer Talen wrote:I honestly cant wait for us to strip mine a planet like that. we're not likely to live on it, so we can completely remove every trace of metal there. Imagine what could be built with that much metal

Deathstars. Lots and lots of Deathstars. Smelting all that metal's going to do wonders for air quality as well.

Junghalli · Post by **Junghalli** » 2005-07-02 11:09pm

Solauren wrote:May I remind you to get there we'd need FTL drives?
Any society with FTL drives should find those problems no-brainers.

Ahem.
Look at science fiction. Do you think B5's Earth Alliance could do it, or ST's UFP, or Starfire's Terran Federation, or Starcraft Terrans, or... need I go on? Virtually nobody below the Galactic Empire (SW) could mine this planet. Granted FTL is probably a lot easier in most SFverses than in RL but still, this is a pretty factually baseless claim you have to admit.

Augustus Caesar · Post by **Augustus Caesar** » 2005-07-02 11:14pm

If we ever do get around to strip mining that planet, I assume we could probably build a million ISD's and several thousand death stars, and there'd still be enough to fuel an industry that would last for years.

Well, hopefully that'll be something my great x8 grandchildren could see. Strip mining a planet discovered before Earth even had FTL transport....

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2005-07-03 03:45pm

Doubt it would be worth the bother to mine that planet. There is enough materials much easier to access in enough quantities that would not involve trying to lift megatonnes of elements and alloys from a gravity well like that.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-07-04 10:23am

Krypton...?

QuantumLobsters · Post by **QuantumLobsters** » 2005-07-08 05:44pm

Guys, we still have a huge asteroid field and dozens of moons to mine from. We don't need to strip mine that giant rock any time soon

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2005-07-08 10:10pm

QuantumLobsters wrote:Guys, we still have a huge asteroid field and dozens of moons to mine from. We don't need to strip mine that giant rock any time soon

Plan ahead man. Plan ahead.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-07-09 04:23am

By the time any meaningful human infrastructure can reach there, we will not need its resources.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-07-09 04:48am

It's like the Emperor was smiling on me when I read this article. Metal, lots of metal. That's just perfect. And it's only 260 lightyears away! That's perfect for the history of my Epic Novel! Yes!

And is it just me or could everyone else picture the way Lord Wong's face looked when he said it was Unicron? That really made my day. Again.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-07-09 01:53pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:By the time any meaningful human infrastructure can reach there, we will not need its resources.

Nah. We *always* need resources.

The horde needs sustenence[/i]

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-07-09 06:04pm

Enforcer Talen wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:By the time any meaningful human infrastructure can reach there, we will not need its resources.
Nah. We *always* need resources.

The horde needs sustenence[/i]

Lord Woodlouse · Post by **Lord Woodlouse** » 2005-07-10 12:06pm

Was I the only one slightly taken aback by mention of American, Japanese and... Chilean scientists?

Seemed rather like the odd one out to me, for some reason.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-07-13 06:22pm

It'd be relatively easy to land on the planet, but how would you get off? Especially with a cargo of extra metal. And this is ignoring the fact that you'd be crash-land in the most boring way possible onto the planet. The explosion would almost be negligible. After all, gas can't exactly expand in that kind of atmosphere.

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