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Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth. (arstechnica.com)
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Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.::Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How often do we mine asteroids on earth?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All the time, but they hit long ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think the implication was that some genius decided to suggest the idea of dropping the asteroids on the surface before mining them the old-fashioned way. Because there's no way that could possibly go wrong. It's not like anybody ever makes math errors or anything.

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