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		ktizo on April 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- With... Sitting inside a research facility is not the same as exploration though.

nknight on April 30, 2012 [–]

What exploration? The context of this thread is commercial exploitation of a resource. This isn't a search for knowledge. You're caught up in the romanticism of space.

ktizo on April 30, 2012 | [–]

Commercial exploitation of a resource we haven't been to yet would seem to include some level of exploration.

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