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An economic argument for space works too. The profits of space mining outweigh the costs by several orders of magnitude and the abundance of resources far outst
by Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
An economic argument for space works too. The profits of space mining outweigh the costs by several orders of magnitude and the abundance of resources far outstrips what's economically accessible on Earth, and as a bonus doesn't ruin the only place in the universe we know can support life.
Also, having a bore hole at a certain depth doesn't mean we can extract material from that depth in useful quantities.
- Retric 8y agoI think your vastly overestimating the costs of mining stuff on earth and underestimating the costs of mining stuff in space. On top of that if you bring back say a cubic mile of gold then gold is not going to be worth nearly as much. Which prevents scaling up space mining as we simply don't need that many raw materials to pay for multi trillion dollar space mining enterprises to bring costs down.