Unless you’ve got a ore carrier the size of the one in “Alien”, you aren’t going to make any money on a Mars mining operation.
And how are you going to transfer it down to Earth? Not in the ore carrier, you aren’t.
Also, remember, it takes about 6 months to reach Mars and 6 months back. You’ll lose a whole year on your investment just in travel time.
And Blackhole insurance is out of this world!
Now.
Now it takes 6 months.
Now it would not be profitable.
Now there are transportation issues.
Sewards Folly turned out to be a pretty good deal for us.
We need to stop looking backwards and being afraid to take a risk.
Sure. And the speed that square-rigged three-masted, wide-beamed ships made from England to Virginia were prohibitive, too. Plus the fact that there was no gold in the new colony, but there were Indian wars and disease’ as well as a shortage of eligible females. I think one of the three great Elizabethan poets satirized new world ventures as a “risky scheme”. But hey. There might or might not be bloodsucking, three-legged aliens on mars. But there are no libtards there.