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I wonder if there's a way you could calculate it's "true" value, which would account for the diminished cost of nickel and iron such an extracted asteroid would
by dmarchand90 6y ago
I wonder if there's a way you could calculate it's "true" value, which would account for the diminished cost of nickel and iron such an extracted asteroid would surely cause. I'm thinking how aluminum used to be worth more than gold and an estimate from the mid-late 19th century would say that we should all be rich from abundant aluminum.
- scotty79 6y agoYeah. In the future one would say "Of course the legs of my table are made from gold-titanium alloy. It's just the cheapest stuff around. Besides, you couldn't have them this thin and light in any other material and that would balloon transport cost and messed up feng shui. It's just a normal table from Ikea."
- CodeGlitch 6y agoYes. See aluminium. (Was very expensive before we figured out how to manufacture it cheaply)
- duxup 6y agoThat and would be intresting to sort of theorize beyond that "If this isn't rare anymore... where might it be used that it wasn't before?"