I have a feeling that our asteroid belt is littered with dead, dying, or sleeping Von Neumann probes that have been sent out by all the civilizations who came b

I have a feeling that our asteroid belt is littered with dead, dying, or sleeping Von Neumann probes that have been sent out by all the civilizations who came before us in the Universe. I think that space mining is a very important endeavour that we should start to undertake as soon as possible.