How asteroid mining could add trillions to the world economy

Yahoo! News / The Week ^ | June 25, 2013 | John Aziz

[norwaypinesavage]

"scientists speculated that a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 0.99 miles contains more than $20 trillion worth of industrial and precious metals"

Similarly, a "relatively small gold mine on earth contains more than $20 billion worth of gold". It's quite easy to find the gold - if you look for it only in the mine. The only trick is finding where to place the mine.

Even if you could solve all of the "asteroid mining" problems, you still have to fine a SUITABLE "small metallic asteroid", and then get it here. My recommendation of to invest in the lottery instead. The odds of success are much-much better.

[ckilmer]

I disagree. Leftist ideology has so completely infected scientific thought today that I’m positive that the late 20th - early 21st century will someday be referred to as the Second Dark Ages.
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I don’t disagree with you about the cause and effect of leftist ideology. I just think it takes longer the scientific/technological effects to take hold if for no other reason that there is an enormous momentum built up behind the scientific/technological enterprise in every part of the scientific/technological spectrum.