>>13171647You are the last person who should bring up post quality.
I concede a derisive approach but that's right in line with the level of your argumentation.
I point out errors and contradiction in your expectations, explain why industries are planning to exploit asteroids and your answer is "No you! Look up the answer for me".
I do hope you know we abandoned the gold standard because of its volatility and use as resources.
Gold vaults only remain in the expectation of its market value rising and are worthless if you can't actually access them.
For a long time the price of transportation from Mars will cost more than the metal itself, you'd make no profit from selling it.
The technologies needed for cheaper and SAFE transportation from Mars (and I'm not talking of pirate even if hacking/ransomware would deserve a chapter) would allow to obtain much more gold from asteroids or the moon (and industries consider them easier source than Mars)
Btw, discovering source of metal easy to bring back would lessen their value on Earth. From memory I know 2 story about space resources crashing the gold market.
>Mars is a superior industrial base for megaprojects than the moon for reasons you should look into yourself.I'd love to hear those reasons because all I see here is an attempt to gaslight and hide your ignorance.
Even if we put aside that Mars is unlikely to become self-sufficient to the point of competing with Earth, the most interesting place for megaproject (I assume you mean gigantic orbital habitat) would be the Moon thanks to its lack of atmosphere.
It's the prime candidate for space elevator or magnetic launch system, any resources/engineering capacity it lack would come from Earth.
The only way to top this is to move our civilization out of planet entirely.
Like you I now doubt I'll be interested in your answer, at this point I expect an apology from you for reasons you should know.
