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Re:We Will Never, Ever, Mine the Asteroid Belt by AtlasBarfed on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:47PM (#29678520)
Let's look at it from the perspective of a space-faring civ that arrives in a solar system, and you need resources.

Would you mine things in a big gravity well like Earth's and have to pay to get the resources out of the gravity well?

Or mine asteroids and low-G moons?

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Re:We Will Never, Ever, Mine the Asteroid Belt by dwaltrip on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:56AM (#29680846)
That is a nice way of putting it!
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