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>>12959975
Imagine being this much of a defeatist luddite.
What if somebody had said
>nah we can't build Pyramids, moving 2.3 million 3tonne stones and stacking them in a triangle is too difficult.

Once they managed to move one moving the rest was easy, it's just a matter of logistics.
When reusable rocketry reaches a certain point, and it will, it's improving at an incredible rate, and once The Boring company gets consistently lower than $10m per mile, then there WILL be asteroid mining.
The Asteroids might as well be ten miles away. Distance doesn't matter in space. It's not as if it takes fuel to go further. Once you're in space you simply lead the target, get up to speed, turn off all engines and coast until you get there. Then you set up. Once setup is complete more and more rockets are continually being sent, for less and less cost, with better and better tech. You do this until saturation and then you wait until the asteroid swings round closer to Earth in its orbit. You send off everything at this point and collect everything in orbit round the earth, waiting to build more mining equipment literally in orbit.

There will come a point where they won't build anything on earth, it's too expensive to get into space. They'll only send down a tiny fraction, so as not to do what Spain did and crash the entire market and hyper-inflate when they discovered South America.

You can scoff all you like but very intelligent people are planning this shit right this second.
Do you really think that Elon Musk is interested in a fucking glorified subway train? No. He's perfecting his mining technology.

Once the first asteroid is being mine there will be an explosion. This is going to all take place in the next 15-30 years.