I don't know if I made my point clear, but gold mining in space is a real issue if our civilization lasts another 50 years.
Bullshit and you people that keep spamming this just make yourselves look stupid each time you type it. Mining gold that costs a million dollars an ounce to produce in space is not viable and is absolutely ZERO threat to anyone that purchased gold that was mined on earth. Since silver weighs more/takes up more space for what they would be trying to bring back, it's even LESS viable to mine in space and was already a better buy than gold anyway. So stop even talking about gold in the first place when the GSR is 80:1 and silver is like god himself walking up and handing you a platter of free money by buying it instead.
This is a really rare moment I have to agree with the genius of roach
But yea its quite simple that weight is a giant factor in anything related to space, its not practical and there is cheaper gold on earth available. Its quite often the case gold can be recovered in low amounts of say less then 1 gram per ton but its not worth their time and energy to sort out the gold, the gold is left in the ground or just thrown away. They recover quite alot of gold from the major cities in Japan, in the sewers. I think in space it might be water that is most valuableI know the great mines of South Africa are related to a giant meteor that cratered there many years ago. However it was how it altered the earth not the minerals it bought that mattered. There is vast quantities of gold within the earths molten core and even more in the sea, however in each case they are distributed and really not easily obtainable. When we get free energy we can get that gold perhaps and go after the stars also
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