Hopefully in 10,000 years space mining will be a relic of the distant past, like the black and white photos of Appalachian coal miners in history books, and we

Hopefully in 10,000 years space mining will be a relic of the distant past, like the black and white photos of Appalachian coal miners in history books, and we will have moved on to creating the materials we need by adding or removing electrons and protons from other more common materials.