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Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth. (arstechnica.com)
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Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.::Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Less harmful to Earth's environment, anyway. The environment on those asteroids is going to be all kinds of fucked up, hard luck for any giant space slugs that might be living there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no, it's beyond the environment. We took the mining operations and moved them outside the environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s all fun and games until the front falls off.

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