Quote:Yeeah, somehow I don't think the global steel market is just going to fold up and walk away without some sort of obvious consequences.
a.) Quite possibly it did, but that workforce and capital just went on to do other things.
Quote:Not really the point. If we take Rockhounds' setup at face value, then the supply for metal has outsripped demand by an order of magnitude at least. If it's on the market, then it's devalued the metals in question to almost nothing. If it's not on the market... where is it?
b.) Would you want your supply of, say, dirt-cheap steel, to be at the mercy of a foreign government?
Quote:Which is probably the most logical answer - the source says that mined-out Space Rocks are converted into habitats and sold to various buyers. It actually makes a bit more sense if Rockhounds cut out the mining middlemen and just converted the rocks into Cole habitats or whatever. Not my call, though.---
c.) Gundam's answer. They're going into space habitats.
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