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Old 06-March-2006, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by antoniseb
It's just like with ebay, the Delivery and Handling costs need to be watched carefully. I expect that in 95 years, someone will be mining a metal asteroid and making mining equipment and habitat parts.

We have plenty of metal on the surface of the Earth for manufacture of things used on Earth.
Delivery costs from LEO to ground are not tremendously high. It's shipping things up that is costly.
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