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> Seems like it would require, at minimum, several planets worth of raw material. You could mine it from asteroids, which have plenty of base metals. There's a
by DerekBickerton 5y ago
> Seems like it would require, at minimum, several planets worth of raw material.
You could mine it from asteroids, which have plenty of base metals. There's already a speculative market for investors wishing to mine them. The only thing is; the technology for transporting it around doesn't exist yet. (We can land probes on them however for recon, but that's about it so far!).
- crubier 5y agoYou might be overestimating the mass of asteroids. The total mass of asteroids in the asteroid belt is 3% of the mass of the moon. Kuiper belt is 2% of the earth’s mass.