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What exotic science fiction technology would you finance research into, if you had billions of dollars? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oil jas constant demand and the Saudis have so much of it that it costs them very little to drill for it and store it. And digging a new well doesn't immediately flood the market with 4x the annual production of oil.

I'm not arguing against asteroid mining. I am saying that it is fundamentally impossible under our current capitalist system. That's why there has been zero advances in the concept in iver a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They don't have to sell all the platinum immediately. Just like DeBeers has mountains of diamonds they keep locked up in warehouses to keep the price controlled.