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by Tondoteottotote on March 29th, 2005

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What would it take to do "star lifting," in other words, mine stars for natural resources?

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  • by Ben Conover on April 2nd, 2005

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    Stars are gigantic balls of flaming gas and as such the temperature of stars is quite high. Current technology has nothing that would not be incinerated by the time it got inside the actual atmosphere of the star. In other words, it isn't possible.

    As for mining other planets or asteroids, the technology is either available to us now or will be inside of 50 years, but the estimated costs are so prohibitive that it won't be happening anytime soon.

    For instance, there has been talk about mining Mars or the Moon for water deposits and bringing them back to the earth to increase the supply of fresh water.

    But the costs involved just in transporting the water back to earth don't make the project even remotely feasible for the time being.

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    • Oh, C'mon! Think -out- of the box! FUTURE scientific advances can make material temperature tolerances hotter than the Sun!

      Tondoteottotote

      by Tondoteottotote on April 3rd, 2005

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