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Yeah, sure, and tobacco execs claimed cigarettes didn't cause lung cancer.

• nradov 3mo ago
  We don't need cigarettes but metals are a necessity. How would you prefer we get them?
  • Keyframe 3mo ago
    Asteroids mining!
    • doodlebugging 3mo ago
      >Asteroids Every time I see this I am taken back to a time when you could walk into a convenience store and drop a quarter into a machine and blast asteroids to smithereens until you made one last mistake and hard to drop another quarter. Thanks!
  • ceejayoz 3mo ago
    Do we not have these metals now, before we've done a single bit of seafloor mining?
    • nradov 3mo ago
      Lack of those metals is one of the key limiting factors holding back the electrification and re-industrialization of the US economy.
      • ceejayoz 3mo ago
        [citation needed]