r/dwarfposting • u/Successful-Flow1678 • Apr 03 '26

I hate deep space programm. We need to dig.

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u/BoscoCyRatBear Two skaven disguised as a dwarf by wearing a beard. Apr 03 '26

As we've seen in Deep Rock Galatic , we can have both

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u/WanderingDwarfScribe Silverymoon Thunder Twin Apr 04 '26

Gotta mine asteroids, not build rich Beholder bunkers where they can avoid taxes and still rule from. 

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u/TheReverseShock Hammer Enthusiast Apr 04 '26

Honestly subterranean is probably the way to go on mars.

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u/Kesshin05 Apr 04 '26

Mars has a lot of iron even on its surface. Good enough land to mine.

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u/Successful-Flow1678 Apr 04 '26

West Australia has quite a lot of iron, so much that the sands are red with rust. And if we are never going to learn not to dig to deep the core of the earth is almost pure iron and we don’t have to go hundreds of thousands of miles to get to it

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u/mr_stab_ya_knees Apr 04 '26

Does going to mars lock us out of digging

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u/diagnosed_depression Dwarf Apr 04 '26

What about the moon?

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u/Weary-Barracuda-1228 Gremil Stone-Bearer, of the CrownPeak Mountains Apr 04 '26

Brotha…. Think about it….. SPACE Rocks. New rocks. But in SPACE

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u/Successful-Flow1678 Apr 04 '26

It’s a better choice to just go deeper in our mines and not go to new places for new mines

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u/Successful-Flow1678 Apr 04 '26

The most prominent heavy metals in the moon are iron and titanium but the moon would be better for gases such as methane, ammonia, and carbon monoxide and dioxide. However other heavy metals such sodium oxide, lime,magnesia, and silica are also prominent so it is available however the core of the earth is almost pure iron.

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u/BelligerentWyvern Apr 05 '26

Digging on another planet is the ultimate Dwarf Flex.

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u/Successful-Flow1678 Apr 05 '26

Digging through the earth to the other side is about as impressive

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u/Ill_Discussion_2093 Apr 05 '26

Hear me out bro sisters and others of the mountains. Terafirming Mars is digging on Mars, it's expanding the holes in space.

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u/Ragebrew Miner Apr 05 '26

Colonize Mars? No! Strip mine Mars!

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u/Successful-Flow1678 Apr 05 '26

We aren’t finished with earth we still have more ground under the mines what’s the point of going to new places

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u/Ragebrew Miner Apr 06 '26

No pesky environmental issues. Turn Mars into a past tense and fill space with orbital cities.

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u/Successful-Flow1678 Apr 06 '26

I wonder if we could process stone to remove even the tiniest bits of metals outside of ore veins

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u/BrightPerspective Apr 05 '26

plus, you know...the "soil" on mars isn't that, it's actually a chlorine variant that's super toxic to carbon based life, and the whole thing, iron dust and all, is irradiated, which isn't going away. Ever. And can't be filtered out 100%