Comment on Space is starting to look like the better mining operation
vmaziman@lemm.ee 11 months agoI’m sure mining in space will have its own problems but at least it can’t kill our biosphere
Comment on Space is starting to look like the better mining operation
vmaziman@lemm.ee 11 months agoI’m sure mining in space will have its own problems but at least it can’t kill our biosphere
schmidtster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s been studies that have found metal particles in the atmosphere, so anything entering and exiting are seemingly shedding particles.
So it’s likely to cause issues down the road unfortunately.
neshura@bookwormstory.social 11 months ago
I’ll take the issue down the road over the one already in my doorstep any time of the week.
Atmospheric pollution is at least something that seems fixable with extraterrestrial resources. Ruined biospheres due to mining on earth seems less avoidable/fixable unless we go back to pre-industrial living standards.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How would it be fixable? The more stuff entering and exiting the atmosphere, the more particles. The particles aren’t from manufacturing on earth from what I read.
neshura@bookwormstory.social 11 months ago
Particles we can bind with chemical reactions (like ad-blu for diesel engines), would be expensive and we would need to be careful to select chemical reactions that actually solve the problem but fundamentally it’s a fixable problem.