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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 5382742, member: 81887&quot;]I see two problems with this valuation:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Metals (or any other commodity) are only worth something if you can get to them and move them to where you will use them.&nbsp; Spaceflight is enormously expensive, and even if Elon Musk or someone else manages to reduce the cost substantially, it&#039;s still going to be a difficult and dangerous endeavor.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. If that much metal suddenly entered the economy, the value would crash, for obvious supply-and-demand reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are already mind-bogglingly enormous quantities of metals right here on Earth, but buried so deep that there&#039;s no way we can get to it.&nbsp; This asteroid is interesting scientifically, and may be worth sending a probe to visit, but I wouldn&#039;t get your hopes up for economically-viable asteroid mining just yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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