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A space elevator on Ceres (with today's tech) and the gravitational assist of Jupiter for returning payloads back to Earth, could allow us to start mining the asteroid belt costing just $5 billion. (www.universetoday.com)
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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

That’s already a solved problem - the billionaires will simply send us up in waves.

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