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Asteroid mining gets sold as a trillion-dollar gold rush, but the economics point the other way: hauling platinum back to Earth would crash its price, so the only prize that adds up is mining water an

The trillion-dollar asteroid fortune collapses the moment you do the math on bringing platinum home. Every few years asteroid mining returns to the headlines as a trillion-dollar gold rush waiting to happen, usually attached to a single staggering number about how much some metal-rich rock is theoretically worth. It is a genuinely exciting idea. It ... [4530 chars]

Asteroid mining gets sold as a trillion-dollar gold rush, but the economics point the other way: hauling platinum back to Earth would crash its price, so the only prize that adds up is mining water an

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