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There's an asteroid out there worth $100k quadrillion. Why haven't we mined
- angiosperm 3y agoBecause if we had a glut of those metals their price would drop below the cost of retrieving them.
- simonblack 3y agoUp-front costs are too high to make it feasible? Sure, '$100k quadrillion' is a good return, but where would you find several/tens/hundreds of trillion in venture-capital to make it feasible?