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If you were the only entity/cartel bringing it back, you could trickle it onto the market.
by blotter_paper 8y ago
If you were the only entity/cartel bringing it back, you could trickle it onto the market.
- senectus1 8y agoto me the idea of mining space to bring back to earth is insanely short sighted and uneconomical to the point of being unethical. Mining space, should be used for the express purpose of developing in space. The one exception I have for that rule is energy, transmitting energy to earth from space may even be the best way for earth to exist long term (but not in the sense of dragging chunks of "high tech coal" dirtside, I mean via microwave or laser or some other high intensity energy stream)
- blotter_paper 8y agoPutting aside the suggestion of "ethics," I mostly agree with this; objects should have more value outside of a gravity well than in one, all other things being equal. Of course all other things are not equal, and as long as there are masses of people living in gravity wells there will be demand for objects to be sent into them. My original comment should be interpreted in the context of its parent.