“This is now becoming so real.”

  • QHC@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The advantage to any space-based mining is not to directly benefit industry on Earth, but to help real manufacturing and other industrial scale operations in space. Doing that could lead to massive benefits for ground-based society, especially if we can automate so scaling to use resources beyond the Earth-Moon system became practical.

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        1 year ago

        Resource extraction on earth is super dirty and exploitative, so I’m all for automating it and moving it to space as soon as it’s commercially viable.