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Originally Posted by Chingas
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.
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I agree that it is likely an exercise in ego-stroking for billionaires, but any sort of space exploration appeals to the dreamer in me. Everyone knows that mining isn't a sure thing (and asteroid mining even less so), but from a science and technology perspective, asteroid mining is extremely interesting.