If you own "space", you also own the Earth. That's worth something, even if you're not using the moon but more favorable sources of mass. And perhaps I've rea

If you own "space", you also own the Earth. That's worth something, even if you're not using the moon but more favorable sources of mass. And perhaps I've read too much David Drake, but I'd like to see what we could do if we had lots of relatively cheap iridium and other rare stuff which we hope to be able to mine and refine out there. We don't have hardly enough of it down here to recycle into e.g. armor.