But again the need is finite. And given the cost of the stuff of those materials in the current market we already know the need to supply ratio is high on the supply side. Adding quadrillions of tons more of it will tank the market.
No, the reason to go into space has always been the same: get mankind off the rock, because we know eventually, one way or the other, the rock will be uninhabitable.
Yes EXACTLY!
I failed to mention that reason but to get off “this rock”
humanity is going to need metal and lots of it,
preferably outside of our gravity well where
we don’t have to expend mountains of energy to get it up there.
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