What If We Started Mining Asteroids?

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Are the billions of asteroids in space secretly treasures?

Space is full of treasures. Literally. If we were able to extract the resources from the rocks in the asteroid belt alone, we could give $100 billion to every person on Earth.

What if we started mining them tomorrow? Could we restore all of Earth’s natural resources that we’ve exhausted over the years? How would this change space travel? And why haven’t we done it yet? Here’s what would happen if we started mining asteroids.

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