# Space Miners Will Bring "Trillions of Dollars" to Earth

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**Created:** [April 24, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/space-miners-will-bring-trillions-of-dollars-to-earth/263511 "2012-04-24T15:25:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oleg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/oleg/32/6276_2.png) [@Oleg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oleg)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/space-miners-will-bring-trillions-of-dollars-to-earth/263511/15 "2012-04-27T19:10:39Z")

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> [@Guys, I need some help right now...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/guys-i-need-some-help-right-now/49367/6):
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> I think the concept is sound, since the earth’s resources will at some point no longer be able to sustain our locus like search-consume-and-move-on type of human expansion, that is before our active attempts to destroy ourself first with wars. Someone needs to to make an effort to preliminary conceptualize and test how we can achieve this effectively and cost effectively.
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> We don’t go from wright brother’s glider to space shuttle in a day, if we only begin to look into these type of ideas when we actually need it to work, it is already too late. Many many however seeming idioitic ideas and fail attempts ultimately do contribute to the success of a working concept.

I still think there should have been an effort to have a moon base as a starting point. Chinese will do it first and then it’s game over man, game over, they’ll have the market cornered.

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