If computers and technology in general is improved using different kinds of minerals, shouldn't there be a day when all these resources get fully depleted and thus, no more tech?
They'll build solutions around existing technologies with what's available, as market dictates.
This is why the petrolpocalypse and "lithium crisis" are bullshit.
>>51748671
That would mean that technology would still change in a way because of the substitution of materials
this is why tech recycling is a thing
we can only hope it becomes more widespread and efficient
>>51748805
This, also asteroid mining. If the materials become valuable enough moving an asteroid into orbit become economically feasible. But as >>51748671 points out it is probably far more feasible to just make computers out of something different at that point.
>>51748829
why the fuck aren't we asteroid mining?
fucking platinum is expensive, but one asteroid would be enough make hydrogen fuel cells for billions of cars for super cheap
then we could stop using petroleum based bullshit for transport
>>51748856
>why the fuck aren't we asteroid mining?
Are you fucking kidding me?
>>51748869
we have the technology
we could do it, all it would take is someone rich enough and crazy enough to lasso an asteroid and bring it home
>>51748856
It's too expensive.. NASA is working on bringing an asteroid into near earth orbit though, but >NASA >funding so don't hold your breath.
>>51748869
When it is economically viable for a private corporation to actually mine asteroids it probably won't be worth it.
Scarcity equals value. It is more profitable in the short term to stay on earth.
>>51749409
eventually someone will do it for the fame
who wouldn't want to be the first company to industrialize space?
>>51748635
also recycling and asteroid mining. One asteroid near earth has enough platinum to give everyone 2 chains on their platinum cars.
asteroid mining companies already exist, they are going to use drones printed in space to harvest asteroids and then transport the resources to a moon base. on the moon base they will then create products with huge fusion powered factories that are automated by virtual workers on earth through a large space internet.
The governments of the world will become irrelevant as large corporations begin exploring and colonizing other worlds.
Eventually our minds will be able to download into android bodies on planets that don't support human life, thus eliminating the deliema of finding sustainable worlds for organics.
>>51748881
And then what?
You obviously can't send the whole thing down without damaging it in re entry, and if any sizable chunk lands on a population centre it will cause a shitstorm about collateral, not to mention ownership disputes over who owns the resources even if it lands on uninhabited land.
You could send it into the ocean which also means you waste more money rescuing it from the seabed and enjoy corrosion if it's something like iron or copper that's susceptible to corrosion by seawater
Sending it down on cargo shuttles is also not feasible as you probably spend more time and money sending up the shuttle than selling its payload. Your extraterrestrial goods may also devalue terrestrial resources unless they become scarce enough to warrant exorbitant prices.
Until space travel becomes cost efficient and fast, space mining will never be viable.
>>51748881
BRING HIM HOME
Isn't current theory that the universe isn't finite?
Also it's possible to change one element into another.
