tweeta_bear
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dont know if its true but it gives me hope!
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i like copper! Cu
dont know if its true but it gives me hope!
I hope some of you amateur (or professional) cosmologists will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always been under the belief that no metals with a greater atomic weight than iron were produced in the original formation of the universe. All heavy metals were created in the destruction of massive stars, and thus could only have come to this planet probably long after the core was formed. If this is true, the possibility of gold at the earth's core is nil.
This would mean an assumption that those super-nova created atoms were nowhere near when our solar system formed. Truth is that our system could be the result of the re-collapse of nova material.
yes yes, worry about the economic effects that extracting the core of our planet would have, forget the fact its the source of heat, magnetic shielding from cosmic radiation, and gravity. If you really want to get rich, hit up Eros, one of the closest asteroids to earth, has something like 400 million times the remaining gold to be mined yet on earth.
I don't know all the in and outs of it but they can tell a lot more than we think by vapor testing a volcano. And looking at what pukes up out of them ... While it may not give the true amount of what's down there they can tell you a general percentage from the composition .... Besides the value of pulling something from that far in the earth would be worth a lot more than the gold you could ever recover ... Just the know how would make ya pretty wealthy .....I'm fairly certain that the comments about drilling the core were made in jest. Just having a few laughs. I can never resolve how scientists can make statements about what metals make up the earths core (other than iron, which is fairly obvious), or what an asteroid is made of until it hits the earth. I'm skeptical about that without core samples. If scientists could make such statements without chemical analysis from physical samples, we would need nothing more than a scientist to take a look at an outcrop, and guide us to riches untold. It's more poppycock...
well it's a educated guess . They can getI agree, but how does that translate to the mineral/chemical composition of an asteroid? I'm just saying that some of the statements that are made by scientists are theories based on known facts coupled with an educated guess. I'm just skeptical about some of those "theories". Even geologists must have chemical analyses done to properly identify the make up of some rocks. When politicians make statements like "37 million people don't have health insurance", I'd like to know more about how they arrive at that number. I suggest there are at least 37 million people that believe what the politician said with no evidence to support it. It seems like the same thing to me....