I was reading in Discover magazine about how it rains diamonds on Uranus and Neptune and also Jupiter and Saturn by another process. The method of high pressure at the right level and the cleansing out of the hydrogen any impurities is considered perfect for making diamonds.
Click Here or see link below for a Wash. Post site about this.
I had thought of methods of extracting samples from the surfaces of distant worlds related to the methods being used of blasting asteroids and catching the stardust or stone blast and then bringing it back our way.
My earlier idea was to set a small lever on the tip of the starcraft sent to a realm like Mars or Venus. The probe goes down to the surface at the right speed (this can be slow enough if the machine "goes with" the orbit of the massive planet in front of its motion so it lands at anywhere from almost 0 to higher speed).
When the probe impacts the surface the lever bounces up the scooped out sample from the surface to be sensed, up to the orbiting collector (where's no space junk collection!). Or it could be blasted all the way to us by the lever since most of the cost of sending payloads like to mars or the moon is in fuel (no fuel needed other than one way) and inertia does the rest.
This method would be simple and cheaper and the sample might be less tainted by the blast of the explosion of the other method
At any rate thinking of how to extract return samples from distant lands and waves may be useful.
I began thinking about how it might be possible even to extract the diamonds from Uranus or other planets.
First we need a cheap way to get payloads to those distant lands of investment, platinum VISA, and cash above...
It seems lasers might be of worth if we used lots of small payloads like in the Breakthrough Starshot method, with some important changes.
I think using a laser as in the Starshot be a cheap method to send materials to the future Mars soap opera stars, they say they might pay for it with a soap opera or a raffle, how much is my Bitcoin pizza worth 50,000 worth!
The exact method would be to make the laser more self focusing by putting a magnetic field around it and using a special torus instead of the starchip sails of the Starshot method.
The torus has a light payload perhaps just a few grams but since no huge fuel costs weigh it down its cost per payload unit is cheap enough to send even a constant stream of precious materials like rocket fuel or food or 3d printers and ink to or from a distant world.
The torus has a magnetic shield to give it either traction returning or cheaper high speed propulsion outward bound. The magnetic field mostly induced in the torus also would shield the payload from cosmic rays. And from entry if we might want to visit and so send supplies to Mars in more than just a few areas.
And about the diamonds? First I considered the possible use if tractor beams but as I will relate here below, drones to drill or etc may be more feasible with current technology.
Even so I consider the use of tractor beams which because of this I consider here mostly for completeness..
This involves what might be the second part of this plan extracting the sample from the "surface" of a distant world by using something like magnetic laser tweezers as NASA is researching about "tractor beams" and I mention several types of tractor beams on my other post -there are more!
Already there are underwater tractor beams that work well and I think lasers combined with magnetic fields might be of value to modulate the wavelength of the resonance. One of my ideas about tractor beams was to use a magnet on the distant mass we want to move with a magnet nearer used to cause the adhesion.
Another idea is to resonate a standing electron wave to oscillate and zero in on the Van de Wals force on the outside of the mass to move as of value and more for general use for mass without a magnet and then multiply the resonance like the wave tractor beam by choosing the right wave resonance. And this would work for more than just the masses with the magnet.
To extract even the distant diamonds I believe a matter wave beam from many convergent sources (of the machine or machines) may be of value like the Gamma Knife used in brain surgery with more than 200 converging lasers (of lower to higher energy when they meet). The lasers of the Gamma Knife are so low in energy they don't even trim the haircut of the patient and the patient walks out of the ER in a few hours after brain surgery.
Except for a tractor wave that would operate even to remove matter like the diamonds, the lasers would be replaced with matter waves, well known from Quantum Electrodynamics one of the (second) most high resolution methods in physics. We know the mass and charge of the electron to more than 50 decimals and its evidence about the matter waves.
My idea is that since the matter waves mostly go in the spaces between the quanta we could send them to converge and do useful things where they meet. E.g. it might make a good sensor while in real time and much the same space it could sense every atom in the body while changing enough of the electrons by ionization where the sensors sense and meet the cancer DNA electrons to someday be a complete and rapid cure.
Here it seems possible though more conjectural about the diamonds or other uses that the matter wave beam could be combined with a magnetic beam which also isn't so quantized to be a form of tractor beam that might also be used to retrieve the diamonds or for other use like to prospect for minerals or heat in geology..
So this is possible; we send the payload on the laser. It has enough mass to self assemble above the area from where we might want to retrieve the diamonds. It self assembles into a small 3d printer. More"ink" is sent cheaply to build a larger printer; more ink yet and we have something like a "matter wave tractor beam" as above.
While this part about the tractor beam of this type is the most conjectural here it seems possible.
If so it would allow entrepreneurs to someday send the machine to Neptune in a few hours at near the speed of light as in the Starshot method, and it would only take a few hours not years to reach the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. Then the machine is built by the printing methods as above. And in a while the diamonds are being sent to us at an extreme profit for a days labor!
Using the tractor beams wouldn't be as probable with today's technology so I consider to use the laser and small payloads as above and use a drone to drill down. A laser is printed out with the drone that mines the diamonds or etc. to return the sample either directly to us or up to the orbiting station already printed out. Another option would be building a chemical booster to return the sample to orbit. These methods might allow unlimited cheap high speed sample returns from any moderately close distance! This might even allow sample returns from the sun.
Samples are returned by printing out a large enough laser at the distant zone to return the payloads to us or by printing out more conventional rockets to return people or etc. The main limit is about the size of the payload and the cost per pound. Even so far cheaper than by other methods.
The amount of ink we could send by cost would be a limit on some machines we build but this might be made more economical as we improve the method.
One problem is about the need for real real good aim and this might need to be solved "only once" since the printer could print out larger nets like e.g. a magnetic bubble plus a laser to steer the incoming ink or other outbound stuff from here. It could be printed out near Mars or other area where we might want to use these methods.
One advantage of the best of this is about colonizing Mars. Its been said there is no known way to return the Martians to Earth from events as in Mars One that are considered here but the ability to send an unlimited stream of materials to Mars on demand would be a valuable life link. For getting started we might send a small self assembling machine that assembles into a small 3d printer then ink is sent to build a larger printer and so on. Now the machine is on the surface where it prints out the rocket tanks and to build the return rocket all the while ink and then rocket fuel is being sent by the laser torus method drop by drop and much cheaper than any other method yet known. All this could be done before the astronauts are sent to Mars and their return is more assured.
If an emergency arises or to speed up the colonization events the number of laser supply lines might easily be multiplied up manyfold when needed. Provided some method of retrieval of the payloads e.g. an inflatable or magnetic net was viable there would be something we could do and save the Mars event if there was an emergency and much boost our colonization and R and D efforts in general.
I imagine that 3d printers could build habitats, and bulldozers printed from the ink would then cover over these boxes with an airtight radiationproof shield of mars soil. And in addition supplies of many sorts, food, air, water and many conveniences would be in reach and a large Mars cities could be built complete with return transportation arranged a lower cost than Uber! This would be before the settlers are sent to Mars.
The plan to live off the land of Robert Zubrin using known materials on Mars, while much tougher than this to do is not mutually exclusive. A combination of both plans might be optimal for more savings.
As I say on my video link below I think we would first want to terraform Mars cheap by spearing a magnetic bubble to one of the satellites of Jupiter and use Jupiter's magnetic field to send it at high speed to Mars crashing it in for air and water and materials etc and even to speed up the spin of Mars a bit so no "jet lag" by crashing the moon into the edge of Mars to speed it up just a bit. (The rover mission technicians found with each Mars 24 hour day with a few minutes more taking a major toll.)
I believe we may also be able to use another large mass like an asteroid with a magnetic bubble added on to shield Mars more from the cosmic rays. NASA is considering using an inflatable magnetic shield for this at the Martian L5 but I consider it more flimsy than a more stable foundation like this and built to last. If we want a real colonization we want our results to endure more for the ages.
Even if we colonize Mars cheaper in years not centuries by this method, other materials cheap by the light payload/laser method above would also be of general value a cheap supply line to Mars in just 4 hours not months.
Here's the Link to the Washington Post Story about Raining Diamonds on Neptune
Here's my video link (the best
Link I can Find) about "A Cheap Way to Colonize Mars in Years Not Centuries" or you can do the search; https://www.google.com/search?q=a+much+cheaper+way+to+colonize&oq=a+much+cheaper+way+to+colinize&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j33.36978j0j4&client=ms-android-sprint-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Couldn't quite find the link, hope this may help..
