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I was under the impression that the point of asteroid mining was to build stuff in space using material already in space.
by lozaning 8y ago
I was under the impression that the point of asteroid mining was to build stuff in space using material already in space.
- biglenny 8y agoMineral processing is one of the most resource intensive processes known to man. The amount of water and equipment required for communition alone is nuts, and facilitating that process, along with many others, in space will remain infeasible for close to a century - at least. Never mind the transportation of the asteroids, or the post ore-sorting manufacturing that would supposedly take place in space.