why are there any company making exploration of telluric planets in order to exploit coals, oil,?

Question

I THINK WE SHOULD EXPLOIT PLANET LIKE MARS BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF RAW MATERIAL AND LOT OF MONEY TO MAKE

Answer 1

1. Man has not even set foot on any other telluric planet. 2. This will not change until 2030 at the earliest via the ESA Aurora Programme's planned manned mission to Mars. 3. Even if this visit is achieved, and it's by no means certain, the establishment of communities, even on Mars the only conceivably viable telluric planet, would require huge resources etc. 4. If you can achieve all of these steps, there is still the question of how exactly you would transport these "raw material" (sic) back to Earth in order that they could be exploited as well as getting the technology required to the planet in the first place. 5. "Coals, oil" may/may not be present on Mars. They are fossil fuels whose presence would require the past existence of life on a considerable scale on any such planet.

Answer 2

You don´t have to shout...
And there isn´t alot of money to be made. The cost of going into space is too high at the moment. The price of any substance on the moon alone would be worth its weight in gold. (I think tellurium is worth more than gold. Is that what you meant by "telluric planets"?) And even if there were loads of coal and gas there (there is none) I doubt people would want to pay 500000 usd for a gallon of gas. Would you? And the farther you the more expensive things get.

Answer 3

Great idea if you`ve got the starship enterprise in your back pocket but for us mere mortals its justa bit more difficult.
lets look at the problem:-
First we gotta get there and thats expensive at something like 100,000 dollars a pound and last time i looked a digger was several tens of tons
Next its the time frame takes years to get there and you have to send geologists to find something useful to mine.
Consumable supplies for the human elements of the mission, very heavy and very expensive to launch
Then theres getting it back cheaply enough to make it worth while thats real hard as the gravity of mars aint that far from earths so back to the million dollars a pound club as we gotta build the infrastructure to launch rockets.
So in theory the idea of mining another planet to support our throw away lifestyle is great but in practice we would just not be able to make it cost effective, sorry buddy
The asteroid belt on the other hand is so much cheaper with small and light robots pushing the asteroids back to earth and then we can mine them in orbit . Only real issue is if we **** up the navigation and plant a multi million tonne asteroid in to downtown New York . But on the other hand . No the fall out risk is way too high we would crack the planet. Not being funny i`ve grown kinda attached to the old ball of mud.

Answer 4

Wow. How cost effective is that?
Coal/oil requires organic life.
costs $3000-10000 per pound to get something off earth.
God knows how much it would cost to launch a vehicle from earth to another planet then have it LAUNCH again to return.
Maybe 20,000-50,000 per pound.
oil is $60-70 a barrel (55 gal. 1 gallon of water weighs in at 8 pounds)
so a barrel of 'oil' would weigh at 330lbs cost 1 million-30 million per barrel.
Some exploit....

Answer 5

Is there? What raw material is there on Mars that would make the billions it would cost to go there and mine it cost-effective?

Answer 6

You would burn up all your profits on the way home!
It would be good fun though.