[from occupied ga]

It’s worth nothing. The cost of getting it would far outweigh the value of the materials.

Put it another way you know exactly where $500 is buried in Antartica. Would you go get it?

[RC one]

seems like it could be incredibly useful some day.

[Dead Corpse]

Scale that up/ There’s a billion dollars buried in Antarctica. You have the gps coordinates. All you gotta do is go get it...

[AndyTheBear]

Not so sure. The cost of getting of getting a small amount would be too high. But the larger the total amount one is after, the less it will cost per unit with industrious engineering.

I would not go to Antarctica for a single $500 dollar buried gem. But if there were billions of these gems it might at some point be cost effective to get some kind of enterprise going to efficiently find and extract them.

Of course, this presumes a plan to make it cost effective at scale would be conceived and competently implemented...and NASA is a government agency....

[Ozark Tom]

The value is not having to ship construction material into orbit in the first place.