[RightWhale]

O'Neill [sp] was one of my asteroid mining gurus. I call space the "Endless Frontier" so as not to step on his "High Frontier". I did an economic analysis, lack of which seemed at the time to be a gap in the dreaming and planning. As a result I am very upbeat on the potential economic return of asteroid mining, but not on many of the other space development ideas.

[RadioAstronomer]

This is why I advocated "lunar base" as one of the top 5 projects on the other thread. The infrastructure required to support it would directly lead to further uses of our solar system including asteroid mining.