andrewducker | Interesting Links for 13-05-2017

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The commodity price implications of asteroid mining are one of the things I think about when I want to distract myself from something boring. (My top favourite is how I'd launder a literal sack full of cash in the event of stumbling over a Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrel scenario.)

I keep bumping up against a situation where asteroid mining eats its own lunch. If successful it risks lowering the price of the, now no longer rare, elements that are being mined.

Also, I'd do it with robots. The fact that the Chinese aren't planning on using robots tells me something about their robotics capabilities.

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