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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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[-] Mafflez@reddthat.com 12 points 8 months ago

Huh. You don't say? I could have told you that and I'm not a genius. Who knew off world mining would be less environmentally impactful to the earth. One issue though would be cost.

[-] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I think the point is that emission from space flight to and from the asteroid (with a sufficently economic size of payload and fuel) is starting to even out. If you take that into account it’s not so obviously less harmful to the environment. But I’m almost certain that it will be way more expensive for a long time.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Or figure out a space elevator which in theory would work but if it failed, it would be very bad.

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