Quote from: funkenstein on January 30, 2017, 10:08:48 PM

Take a look at the costs, you'll find it's absurd.

Going up and down the gravity well is expensive as all hell. You'll never make that back no matter what you find on Ceres or the Moon. Even if it were already stacked in refined bars waiting for you to pick them up!!

OK as a fully subsidized mission with no profitability other than a technology subsidy, sure. But as a proper business? No way.

At least not until we get that space elevator built Wink

yeah the cost can rise like if you are "ignoring" the surface ocean fishes by hoping to catch a bigger fish 3 km down the ocean.