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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benveniste, post: 24704591, member: 25547&quot;]“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”</p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t rule out the possibility that in the far future, someone develops the technology to assemble elements inexpensively.&nbsp; But so much would have to happen between then and now, I&#039;m pretty sure the beings and society which achieves it would be unrecognizable to us as humans.</p><p><br /></p><p>The approach Seaborg used to create gold from Bismuth is a probabilistic one, and so little gold was created they could only infer that stable gold was present by detecting the radioactive isotopes.&nbsp; Isolating and extracting the &quot;good&quot; gold from the dross before it underwent further nuclear reactions was not attempted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if you posit unlimited free energy, it would almost certainly be less expensive to extract gold from fly ash, plant ash, or even sea water.&nbsp; Or, for that matter, to fly robots out to 16 Psyche and back to mine the stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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