[cogitator]

I thought it was the government's job to provide for the common defense. However, if you could prove that there are asteroids out there with a large amount of economically-valuable metal ores, some venture capital for asteroid mining might be discovered.

[RightWhale]

That's not a problem, and I have a business license for that purpose. The problem is the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty. No one will invest when there is no possibility of ownership of resources.