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Originally Posted by Chingas
These guys have a lot more money than brains. Id be 140 years old before this thing could turn a profit from any tangible business venture (not sucking up grant money etc) and that is the hydrogen fuel depot only. The mining portion is an utter pipe dream.
Sometimes excessively rich people annoy the hell out of me. I hold no ill will what so ever towards their wealth, it's the freaking ######ed ideas they come up with to piss it away that bugs me. And I think the part that really bugs me is that deep down I know that they will somehow profit from this, likely by unconventional ways, ie money from national budgets.
There are millions of other things that could use the incredible effort and money that will be put into this ridiculous wet dream contrived by a pack of wankers.
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On the one hand, I hear where you're coming from. On the other, ASTEROID MINING FOR RARE EARTH METALS!
Having additional rare earth metal resources might drop the prices down, but I think that's a very good thing from a technology perspective. We have many current technologies that work but are cost prohibitive because of the metallic catalysts used. Think of the potentials!