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A space elevator on Ceres (with today's tech) and the gravitational assist of Jupiter for returning payloads back to Earth, could allow us to start mining the asteroid belt costing just $5 billion. (www.universetoday.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

All deep space mission proposals like this conveniently ignore the unsolved problems of long term radiation exposure and food supply, among many others.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That’s already a solved problem - the billionaires will simply send us up in waves.

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