Pitch: We are an asteroid mining company. When most people think about asteroid mining, they think of getting all the mining equipment to space and carefully mining and refining ore in space, before bringing the ore back down in a controlled landing. But humanity has zero experience in Zero-G mining in the vacuum of space. This is obviously very inefficient. Instead, it’s much more efficient to bring the asteroids down to Earth first, and mine it on the ground.
I and some other researchers concluded in a 116 page report from 4 years ago that doing the mining on Earth is not profitable. Sorry for only letting you know now. The prospective funders told me that publishing the report would be an infohazard. I do not remember the exact reasons, but I do recall them saying the public information about the investigation must not exceed 1 paragraph.
Thanks for the announcement, Linch and Austin!
I and some other researchers concluded in a 116 page report from 4 years ago that doing the mining on Earth is not profitable. Sorry for only letting you know now. The prospective funders told me that publishing the report would be an infohazard. I do not remember the exact reasons, but I do recall them saying the public information about the investigation must not exceed 1 paragraph.