Re: Frontier
As for your first paragraph: The resources from a half-mile diameter nickel-iron asteroid are comparable to the known world reserves of these resources on Earth, and in some cases (nickel, cobalt, platinum) they dwarf the Earth reserves. This one asteroid would contain enough gold to equal about three percent of all the gold ever refined on Earth. This has got to be worth something.
As for your second paragraph--whoa, man, get a different job. You're getting even more crispy around the edges than usual.