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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Doubt we would go to Mars for mining,
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Then we are agreed. How marvelous!
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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Asteroids are better sources of rare ores, talking up to tens of trillions of $ per asteroid here. Hollowed out Asteroids also make good colonies or even spaceships.
Also asteroids are not just found in the space between Mars and Jupiter but near our orbit. Sometimes they are even closer to Earth than the Moon.
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True, but most official sources indicate that the Earth will have run out of Aerosmith by the time we can develop the technology to drill on asteroids, making the mission all but pointless.