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Re:We Will Never, Ever, Mine the Asteroid Belt by aoeusnth1 on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:42PM (#29675660)
Where does this guy get the idea that there are only a few grams of useful material on a given astroid? Check the potential targets section of the Wikipedia article, there are many astroids with hundreds of billions of dollars of value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining

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Re:We Will Never, Ever, Mine the Asteroid Belt by gautamcgoel on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:16PM (#29676106)
The guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about. I would find it funny if the author wasn't so condescending and smug.
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