{"id":31692,"date":"2016-11-05T00:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T07:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/theres-big-money-to-be-made-in-asteroid-mining"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:01","slug":"theres-big-money-to-be-made-in-asteroid-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/theres-big-money-to-be-made-in-asteroid-mining","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s big money to be made in asteroid mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-big-money-to-be-made-in-asteroid-mining.jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If humans were ever able to get their hands on just one asteroid, it would be a game-changer.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the value of many asteroids are measured in the quintillions of dollars, which makes the market for Earth\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/size-oil-market\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">annual production of raw metals<\/a> \u2013 about $660 billion per year \u2013 look paltry in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that the Earth\u2019s crust is saddled with uneconomic materials, while certain types of asteroids are almost pure metal. X-type asteroids, for example, are thought to be the remnants of large asteroids that were pulverized in collisions in which their dense, metallic cores got separated from the mantle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.de\/the-value-of-asteroid-mining-2016-11?r=US&IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.de\/the-value-of-asteroid-mining-2016&#45;11?r=US&IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If humans were ever able to get their hands on just one asteroid, it would be a game-changer. That\u2019s because the value of many asteroids are measured in the quintillions of dollars, which makes the market for Earth\u2019s annual production of raw metals \u2013 about $660 billion per year \u2013 look paltry in comparison. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-economics","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49640,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions\/49640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}