Asteroid mining not a million miles away

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Asteroid mining not a million miles away

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Work by a team of University of Adelaide scientists to perfect metal and mineral extraction processes is bringing the possibility of mining the wealth contained within asteroids closer to reality. But science fiction won't become fact until asteroid mining becomes economically as well as technically viable.
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-asteroid- ... miles.html
Any metaphor will tear if stretched over too much reality.
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