Reply to post: Re: No problem for a long time to come

Who owns space? Looking at the US asteroid-mining act

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Re: No problem for a long time to come

Given the cost of getting metal into orbit the principle advantage of space mined stuff is that it's already up there. If you have a couple of million tons of Ti in orbit it is a lot easier to use it build something to go to mars than land it on earth and then launch it again.

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