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Thread #161123   Message #3826530
Posted By: beardedbruce
14-Dec-16 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Space program goals
Subject: RE: BS: Space program goals
Donuel,

Sorry, any radioactive isotopes of gold would have decayed away, if they are not being produced in the solar system. Where do you think transmutation is happening?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_gold

Please note the half-lives- any trace amounts left after 4.5 to 5 billion years would not be a risk.

And we do not (yet) have gravity tractors of warp drives, in any deployable form. I have no problem working on them, but it would be nice to have some means of changing the orbits of bodies that would otherwise collide with the earth ASAP.