We have millions of cars, planes, rebar, jewelry, bullets, boats, phones, wires, etc. How is there still metal being made? Are we projected to run out anytime soon?
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If the Earth is an apple, human activity in terms of volume is around a tenth of the thickeness of the apple’s skin.
With all the metals that are in the ground we might just dig forever and never run out of metals. (at least the common ones like iron)
Earth is big.
Really, really big.
You wouldn’t believe how big the Earth is. If you think it’s far walking to the corner store, that’s peanuts compared to Earth.
Because you are underestimating how gigantic the planet really is, and some of these metals like iron and aluminum are among the most abundant elements on earth.
Go to Google maps and search Manhatten, which is arguably one of the most dense areas of metal and other stuff. Once you are there, slowly zoom out and take note of just how tiny it is compared to earth. Then remember these mines are deep. So it isn’t a square mile of iron mine. It might be multiple cubic miles for a given mine.
Metal is classic at this point; newer generations will always be playing Metallica and Slayer on their guitars, drums and basses. We won’t run out of metal in a few lifetimes.
If you speak French because unfortunately the video has no English subtitles, you should watch [Aurore Stephant talk regarding mining in the next century](https://youtu.be/i8RMX8ODWQs?si=xqdT5S5dkVJI6xu1)
Basically, [in 2018, to follow the demand, we should extract until 2050 more than what had been extracted since Antiquity](https://youtube.com/shorts/Q9UIV2fVOH0?si=8bu6FWJO_hb1P4bM)
Good luck everyone
There is an entire planet under our feet. You might think it’s only one planet, but the damn thing is big. There is enough planet for each and every person in the world to have 139 cubic kilometers of it. If you took your part of the planet and had it as a cube the side length would be 5.2km, and much of that volume is various metals. How much of that available metal are you personally actually using and how much of it is still in the ground? We are quite literally just scratching the surface.
A resource is a commodity which has an evidence and this evidence may have various foundry, generator, controlled source, and extra controlled source plus others that generates the resource. A foundry may generate the source while the time has always progressed onwards in real or simulated time for some time, a generator provides a limited source for an infinite time on demand like a foundry but also with emphasis on detail, a controlled source provides a one time use item from a ledger of a controlled currency, and an extra controlled source uses some kind of superior hash algorithm or rather impulse hash to have created a military item which the control of SHA and military algorithm are a military secret of the USA.
Cars, cars are a portable foundry with geological intelligence reference to roads by a human intelligence resource comparing the expected behavior of cars to roads and not off roads generally. Planes are also portable foundry but always used if they bear muntions as munitions were sourced from the gunyard and only smithsfield produces guns not bombs. Rebar, rebar is the formation of exact stability necessary for musical instruments as wire rebar, is used in methamphetamine as wire rebar, and is a GLITCH source at 3BAR or rather rebar, rebar and rebar wire are also a nerve gas as a molecule as it is sharp and holds tetanus. Jewlery, this is the JDAM, the JDAM is a patch cord that has become explosive and has a fuze and a limited yield, 500, 1000, or 2000 kilogram explosive yield as well the explosion is tuned at oscillation pressure not to Skrillex. Bullets, bullets are only in midair or as a commodity, a bullet in midair becomes a commodity and all the bombs on the fighter jet are on the ground or the jets, same count as the bombs, will go into the ocean for the first test if the pilot is not on the ground, at objective, with the reference vehicle, damaged or nondamaged, without the bombs, for israel military complex to debug. This is in reference to the PATRIOT act which allows israeli battlefield domination, land, space, sea, air, cyber over all american comms. A boat is actually invented by me to cross the ocean as otzi to freeze myself in siberia on a telecommunication tower after disassembling all the telecommunication tower in america. Killing a mammoth with a spear near my corpse that i self froze in the nederland wilderness. Phones, phones are just a starlink connection that you pay for. Starlink has way too many hosts nowadays. Wires are just fine rebar which is better at doing the bar work of rebar, too good in fact. Wires can be used as meth, they just have to be the molecule version.
Metal is explosion so that the internal combustion engine use will always create metal. As well, bombs are also a source of metal and are an essential metal of the human body both in vaccines and drugs where they are used to create transcommunication across short region and in fact water is a source of metal as rust where the collective bound of all rust creates the disease teatanus, or britian, which means that water does not have alchemic properties to create metal, at least not any more. As well, only reductive burning is possible without chemicals which chemicals add oxidative burning to resource and create oxidation pooling where hidden sentiment is held at regions of high oxidation above the perceivable limit. The limit for oxidative capacity of sensing is maybe 41100 angstrom, while hidden thus possible hiding something channels because of sensor error license agreement that the noted malfunction of downshift yields that the license can mean that the higher frequencies are hiding something, this high limit that cannot have its exact nature proven but the existence of this oxidative band is proven, this cannot be sensed only countersense by sensor is 192000 proven and this is enough for at least 10 other signal within a single oxidation channel. As well, because the player is very quiet, technically infinite signal exists above the capacity of the player rendering the power of the player only to have overridden another player therein. Effects of current ultralarge commodity distribution do not effect commodity cache, only resource. Existing commodity cache are split from ultralarge value vat and distributed. This distribution is to the shareholders and any faience required which is to normalize the nations debt by normalizing corporation debt. It is not any and all fiecence but a board determined fiecence. That is by the collapse board regulating the collapse, which regulates the individual quoted bailout action payment which are obligated by the bailout, which are only the adjusted fiecence generally for very large corporation or subsidiary to pay another bank.
When stars die, they explode and create giant clouds of various elements. Iron is one of the most common elements formed in the final stages of a star’s life and the moment of its death.
Our solar system formed billions of years later within the nebula created by such a dead star, meaning there is a *LOT* of iron in the solar system and within the Earth in particular. The entire core of the planet is made of nickel and iron.
Well there’s a LOT of metals abundant on the surface and inside the surface of earth, and metals can be recycled too. That’s probably why.
You better believe when man wants plenty of something they will find a way to acquire it. Go to war with some country, steal all their precious metals. If we are lucky, we will begin mining asteroids or comets for it.
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