Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)
by gaius on Thursday February 03, 2011 @06:21AM
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No it is not - because if that much were available it would drive down the price...
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Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)
by slackerIII on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:32PM
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Well, it's not like you are just going to grab the whole thing and bring it back. But I agree, a new source of rare metals would change the pricing. But, platinum is an interesting metal -- engineers could do a lot fun things with it if it wasn't so expensive.
In one asteroid is worth $20 trillion, how much are 5000 asteroids worth?
I expect if you had 5000 asteroids worth of iron, you'd have to pay people to take it off your hands.