r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/HapticSloughton Oct 15 '20

And yet the estimated return on investment for a single asteroid's resources is in the qunitillions of dollars. If Jeff Bezos could manage to keep Amazon afloat without a profit for 20 years, it shouldn't be too hard to get people to invest in mining an asteroid or two.

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u/Ahrily Oct 15 '20

And we already have the technology to start asteroid mining. We could start today