Huge rare earth deposits found in Pacific
- Thread starter Mark
- Start date
Hey, now we got options!
Either get our rare earths primarily from a communist dictatorship with a poor record on human rights AND environmental protections, OR we can go dig up the stuff ourselves from the bottom of the ocean!
Life, she sure is funny!
Either get our rare earths primarily from a communist dictatorship with a poor record on human rights AND environmental protections, OR we can go dig up the stuff ourselves from the bottom of the ocean!
Life, she sure is funny!
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Hey, you know how it works:
Once people get tired of spending $4000 on portable electronics because China decides to truly exercise a stranglehold on the rare earth supplies, we'll either go back to brick-sized cell-phones or America and Japan will mine the fuhhhgedaboudit out of those deposits.
Once people get tired of spending $4000 on portable electronics because China decides to truly exercise a stranglehold on the rare earth supplies, we'll either go back to brick-sized cell-phones or America and Japan will mine the fuhhhgedaboudit out of those deposits.
Relique du Madde
Adventurer
Fify! Cause you know the likelihood of the US doing anything in the deep sea will be next to nothing. If we are lucky we will run the cafeteria on the mining rig.
RainOfSteel
Explorer
Readily extractable? From depths of 3,500 to 6,000 meters?
Huh.
I think I need to update my understanding of available modern undersea mining technologies and methodologies.
Huh.
I think I need to update my understanding of available modern undersea mining technologies and methodologies.
We'll get Aquaman to tell some deep sea crabs to do the mining...
Cyberzombie
Explorer
Rare earths, the name notwithstanding, are not particularly rare. The Chinese have the market cornered mainly because they're willing to stripmine their country and sell the metals for far less than anyone else can. So this is interesting but not a game changer.
Relique du Madde
Adventurer
Aquaman? What about the Submariner? Hmm... I wonder who would win that fight?
Last edited:
Tyranthraxus
Explorer
Or we do something with Branson's new Subermersible which apparently can safely go to the bottom of most of the worlds trenches.
Robotocise the mining.
Robotocise the mining.
megamania
Hero
Godzilla takes on winner
C'thulhu, Schmuthulhu- WE NEED MORE iPHONES!
Well, everyone does keep saying Apple is a cult...
Relique du Madde
Adventurer
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
NOOO! you said THE name! HE AWAKENS!!!
Yeah, but he's got no signal.
Besides, I've got weapons and a LOT of garlic butter.
Besides, I've got weapons and a LOT of garlic butter.
I thought you still used aCrackBerryRazor.
Me?
Nah- I still have a stupidphone. But I understand economics & consumerism at a very deep level!
I can show you a great article from the Economic Journal of Miskatonic University as to why it is vital to the world economy that this rare earth deposit MUST be mined...
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
We just need James Cameron to broker a deal for us with the NTI's, and we'll be good to go.
Mineral acquisition filmed by Cameron, financed by us through the big screen in 3D, and used to make those damned hover cars and jetpacks I've been waiting for all my life.
Similar Threads
