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To: Repeal The 17th

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.


158 posted on 07/31/2023 1:32:54 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

IF: the cost of extraction exceeds the value of the material;
THEN: the material has no value.
Simple. Even a caveman should understand it.


161 posted on 07/31/2023 1:46:11 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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