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It would have to be mere trickles anyway, unless of course you want to ram an asteroid into the planet.

Simply harvesting it is meaningless if you don’t actually have a way to get it to the market. Effectively you are saying, what if they dig up tons of oil in a place that we can’t actually go to easily, the cost of transport has an effect, commodities are priced in the short term, not the long.

The problem is getting the asteroid into orbit is the first step, you have to move the material earth side, preferably without causing another Tunguska. for the foreseeable future, until we can figure out how to solve that problem any space resources will be confined to space, this means the...