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Space/Science » in reply to Re: Private asteroid mining?

There are already answers to many of these questions.

A lot of people have worked on the technology of moving asteroids, refining on site, transportation, energy needs, propulsion techniques, and cost/benefit.

Obviously, we have a ways to go before asteroid mining is a major source of resources, but we already know where a lot of the nickel-iron asteroids are.

Here's one.

Forty years ago nobody would have thought that it would be cost-effective to haul oil up from under a mile of ocean, either.

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