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Originally Posted by Kybosh
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!
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The reality however is that there are a lot of resources that aren't being mined on earth currently because it is cost prohibitive to do so even with the current high cost of precious metals.
On top of this these asteroids are not giant chunks of gold that you just take a piece off and bring home.
I work in the mining exploration industry and they can't tell from the surface whether there are adequate amounts of ore to go after, so to think that a telescope will tell you is so far from any sense of reality it's not even funny.
These guys trulie are lost in the movie world, just because they did it in Armageddon doesn't mean it will work in real life.