“...There’s lots of stuff of value...
...just not enough value to justify the cost of extraction...”
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Here’s your sign!
Nope. Just showing I understand basic math and you don’t.
Permafrost in Siberia has posed the same kind of problem. There’s a lot of great stuff in the ground there, but dealing with permafrost is expensive. If it costs you $2 trillion to extract $1 trillion of metals that doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff of value there. Just that the extraction process is too expensive to make it worth it. There’s multiple trillions of dollars worth of stuff in the moon
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lunarsurface18/pdf/6001.pdf
But getting it... That’s hundreds of trillions of dollars. Unless we make some major technological leaps.