Here's why that is important.
Bringing Platinum to the bottom of the gravity well would crash the economy, but putting water in Earth orbit would do that just as well.
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11:46 ...another space-minded
11:49 company focused on water has commercial
11:51 agreements already in place that value a
11:53 payload of just 100 tons of water at one
11:56 billion dollars upon its delivery in
11:59 orbit to Earth what that means is that
12:01 just five liters of water in space is
12:03 worth the same as a kilogram of gold on
12:06 earth and there are other more important
12:08 resources in asteroids too they promise
12:10 to be a plentiful source for the
12:12 critical helium needed to make things
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