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Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by ryandrake on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:25PM (#16073743)
Even if there were bars of pure gold just sitting there on asteroids (or even floating in orbit) for us to take, it would cost more to get them than just mining them on Earth. People underestimate the stupendous economic cost of doing anything in space.
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Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by kamaal on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:48AM (#16078239)
Oh well not gold.

But if you told them they could get unlimited clean fuel. There could be plenty of funding to extract water/ice from asteroids and send it back to earth.

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