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The price is high because the rock is unique. Bring back more of them and they will become worthless.
by paxys 1y ago
The price is high because the rock is unique. Bring back more of them and they will become worthless.
- kulahan 1y agoI think you’d have to bring back quite a bit before Mars is no longer cool to own
- ElevenLathe 1y agoBut it's a fair consideration in that you would probably get much higher prices if you did a one-and-done Apollo-style mission, because the assumption would be that there aren't more coming, at least for a while. In that case, the world's billionaires are competing for status by owning one of a limited few (maybe only one?) Mars rocks. If you're clearly setting up a colony up there, then world's billionaires are only competing for temporary status, since there will eventually be more on the market, and they probably won't be whipped into a such a fervor in the bidding.