The whole idea behind investment in asteroid mining is to get capital infrastructure in place to make it cost competitive. In the past we traveled thousands of

The whole idea behind investment in asteroid mining is to get capital infrastructure in place to make it cost competitive. In the past we traveled thousands of miles in boats and caravans to get raw materials that were not easily available locally. Sure, you could grow cloves in France, but investing in and establishing routes to south Asia ended up being an investment that made availability of the cloves easier.