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"Could there be an asteroid made of gold?"

"Metalliferous asteroids as potential sources of precious metals"

"Successful recovery of 400,000 tons or more of precious metals contained in the smallest and least rich of these metallic NEAs could yield products worth $5.1 trillion (US) at recent market prices."

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So what you are saying is, if we can move around the solar system we can have unlimited resources. And I'll bet with unlimited resources we could have unlimited energy too.

Wouldn't it be nice to have all the dirty manufacturing done on the moon? That way the Earth could be used for food (maybe we could grow food on the moon too?) and habitat. Now that would make the environment wackos happy!