<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 3:13 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Distinguishing between 10 quadrillion and 10 quintillion is meaningless: you<br>
can get to that number if you estimate the cost of hauling all that out to<br>
that orbit, which would not be done. One could very nearly as easily argue<br>
that the asteroid is worthless (for now) because we can't get to it at a<br>
practical cost with the means of using it for anything useful.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That number is also silly because the moment such a supply crashes the market the demand goes to zero (or negative)</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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