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To: vetvetdoug

Even if there were gold nodules all over the ground, the cost of the mars mission would exceed the value of what they could bring back. More important would be iron and other metallic ores - stuff that would be useful if we established a permanent colony.


25 posted on 04/02/2015 3:36:55 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Earth First!
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(We’ll mine the other planets later.)


28 posted on 04/02/2015 3:53:36 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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