• echo64@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a lot of exciting words to say “instead of digging up the effectively limitless amount of rock under our feet we can go into space to do it in the least efficient and most expensive way”

    It’s very cool, but I would rather we spend our time and resources on more pressing things, given we have the rocks right here.

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      1 year ago

      I would agree if mining the rocks on earth didn’t cause ecological collapses and kill off animals and displace indigenous and exploit underprivileged ethnic classes in post colonial hellholes