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From: jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: Excavating (minig) gold in the space by NASA.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 18:45:54 GMT
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In article <10265.28560852@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> jones@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>sehari@iastate.edu (Sehari Babak) writes:
>>crayfe@nas.nasa.gov (Cray Hardware Support) writes:
>>>I recently came across this article in sci.elctronics and thought it
>>>might be of interest since the recent discussion of where the price
>>>of gold might be going. Anybody care to comment?
>
>The price of gold will go way down if the market is flooded with it.
>Gold based economies will be disturbed.
> 
>[deleted: discussion about the golden asteroid]
>
>> I assume this could be possible if the price of gold goes much higher. let us
>> forget about mars and concentrate on this, for now. After all, who needs cheap
>> marsian dart.
>
>Mars might have more to offer us than just cheap darts :-)

	The really sad thing is that the *cost* of getting the gold and 
platinum out of the Golden Asteroid might well be an order or two (or more)  
of magnitude higher than the value of the gold, especially if you dump
10,000 tons of gold on the market. 

	Heh. Lets announce that there exists a plausible, cheap, 
available to get the GA , and buy gold cheap while the panic lasts.

								James Nicoll