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Rigorous Science Asteroid flux or: How to make a planet perfect for mining

One of the cool things about the Moon is that the far side has a thicker crust that the near side.1 One theory explaining this is that the Moon was hit by an object, possibly a moonlet created by t...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

Question planets mines
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Q&A Tunnels under the ocean

So I build a city on the ocean floor out of handwavium, Bioshock style, but I want an easier way to get there besides taking a boat to the middle of nowhere and then getting into a submersible. I...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by AndyD273‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by AndyD273‭

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Q&A Where do I put diamond mines on my map?

I've got a home-brewed D&D setting. Diamonds, in D&D, are needed for resurrection magic, so access to diamonds is literally life and death for any country with clerics capable of casting su...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Ettina Kitten‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Ettina Kitten‭

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Q&A Why do dwarves usually live in mountains?

This is as much a question as it is a thought that I've had. You see, folding mountains (as in made by tectonic plates movement) are very poor in heavy minerals like metals, and they seem to be the...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by ChicoTheGuy‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by ChicoTheGuy‭

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Q&A Ways to dig deep into a liquid core

Take for example, Neptune, a planet with a slushy mantle and outer core. Imagine we want to mine for water (or some substance beneath it - maybe an exotic ice form under all that liquid). How do ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Josiah‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Josiah‭

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Q&A Is planetary drill possible?

I was wondering would a planetary drill be possible? The drill should go inside the planet on one side and exit on the other. Would that kind of a drill be possible on Earth and if not on what kind...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Plexus‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Plexus‭

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Q&A Real Life Zohar

In the movie Noah, which puts a new spin on the old legend of Noah's Ark, In the movie Cain's descendants mine a ore called Zohar. For those of you that have yet to see the movie, first go watch it...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A Where and how can we mine diamonds outside of Earth but within our Solar System?

Edited to give a reason why synthetic diamonds wouldn't work instead. In the distant future, all the diamonds are gone. While synthetic diamonds are an excellent sollution for technology - as @...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A What could you mine from a city squashed by an ice sheet - in a new ice age?

Western civilisation fell over a few centuries ago, because the Earth shifted back into a full on ice age climate. Oh and Skynet kind of happened. Ice sheets expanded, inexorably rolling over the...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by DrBob‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by DrBob‭

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Q&A Could we mine the Moon if we replaced the taken mass?

There is the strong theory that the Earth and the Moon were part of the same core at one point. This would lead one to believe that there are precious minerals under the surface of the Moon. Metal...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Sarfaraaz‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Sarfaraaz‭

Question moons gravity mines
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Q&A Is helium 3 lucrative enough to justify the mining of the moon?

I've been trying to come up with a scenario in which space stations and lunar bases are established but are considered controversial. I sort of figure that if corporations started mining the moon t...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Wazanator‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Wazanator‭

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Q&A Who should mine the Asteroids? Humans or Robots?

Discounting the actually quite good idea of having the asteroids be the site of colonization would it be better to use human miners or automated ones? Both would probably deliver the goods by unma...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by King-Ink‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by King-Ink‭

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Q&A The Desert of Ore, how is it different from a desert of sand

So, within my setting, I would like to also have a kingdom based in a special desert. Absolutely all of the sand in the desert would be ore sand. Ores of any and all kinds that you could traditiona...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by grimmsdottir‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by grimmsdottir‭

Question geography mines