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A comment on The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors. Parent comment

Re:The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors by tomatotomato37 on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:01PM (#19702971)
My vote is on industrial-scaled asteroid mining. The ability to both drop near-unlimited riches into coffers of the people you like and onto the cities of the people you don't like would seem to be the be all end all combo
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Re:The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors by LeonM on Saturday April 20, 2019 @05:27AM (#19705575)
I highly doubt asteroid mining would ever be profitable. The cost of getting bulk goods from space down to earth are astronomical (ha!).

Also, if you were to flood the market with any material you mined, prices would go down.

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