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From: webber@world.std.com (Robert D Webber)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space
Subject: Re: Platinum-group metal concentrations in earth-crossing objects
Keywords: gold
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.003812.11369@world.std.com>
Date: 16 Jun 91 00:38:12 GMT
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After I posted an article to this group regarding some errors in and
difficulties not mentioned in one of Nick Szabo's postings on extracting
platinides and other materials from an asteroid, I came across the
answer to my own question in another of his postings: the oxygen and water
to be used in processing the metals will come from previously gathered
ice chunks.  To me this makes the scheme seem even less likely, or at
least less predictable, since one has to assume that yet another whole
range of technical problems have been overcome cheaply.