[blackdog]

When discovery and recovery costs are factored into the selling price of iron ore, rock, ice, and trace minerals able to be mined in space, the cost per ton should include about $500 billion in additional costs compared to earth mined deposits.

So that new Chevy Tahoe would run about $500,000,056,000.00..............Without cash for klunkers incentives.

[WhiskeyX]

You are wrong, because that is not what they are attempting to do. it is a false argument.

Compare the cost of iron ore and water mined or collected on the Earth and transported to the Earth’s Lagrangian point in space to the cost for the same goods obtained from an Earth asteroid or the Moon and transported to the same Earth Lagrangian point. The asteroid sourced material is far less costly per kilogram.

[Noumenon]

And yet that whole equation would be upended by a revolutionary leap in the technology we use to get from point A to point B.