There is no value in mining asteroids for prescous metals which if done, would o

There is no value in mining asteroids for prescous metals which if done, would only decrease the value of those metals via inflation of supply.

There is lilttle other than radioactive material that is worth mining, and unfortunately that material isn’t concentrated in dense form, but in small parts per million.

I had assumed that given Sol is a third or fourth generation star that there might be different elements of greater mass (energy) and density elsewhere in the universe, which would provide some promise of new sources of energy. But this appears to be either unlikely or irretreivable given the necessary density, temperature, and pressure.

My understanding, admittedly uncertain at present, is the value of asteroid mining is limited to use by ships, very large ones, that want to avoid the costs of gravity well resources, given the poor weight to cost ratio of going up and down that well.

Most of our science fiction and ambitions of the future are dependent upon finding something to power us safely with a far higher energy to weight and volume ratio than we are capable of producing today in any form.

At present our hopes are on cold fusion, but while the math says it’s possible, my undersetanding of the physics that this math describes says not.

Hence many of my criticisms of ‘mathiness’ in physics.

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