The value, actually usefulness
since materials such as gold and diamonds have very little utility
of what’s in 16 Psyche
is much higher than rocks on the moon or other planets
which are also in deep deep gravity wells making them that much
more difficult to exploit and I am doubtful that
at any point in the near future the
resources of 16_Psyche will actually be recovered
especially in any significant quantity to effect today’s markets but
now the reason to go into space has dramatically changed
it is no longer ONLY for the high ground but for materials that can be
used both in space, outside of our gravity well and here on earth.
Before this discovery space was merely deadly dangerous and interesting.
Now the entire ballgame has changed and
the race is back on again.
Interesting times indeed.
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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.