peterk@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Peter Kauffner) (06/13/91)
asldh@acad2.alaska.edu writes: >Are these quantities large enough to distort the market, or am I blowing a >false alarm? World gold production is about 1,500 tons a years. 10,000 tons should be more enough to create a significant distortion. I doubt asteroids pose much threat to gold prices, tho. Mining an asteroid will be godawful expensive. Peter Kauffner UUCP: {crash tcnet}!orbit!pnet51!peterk Minneapolis, Minnesota INET: peterk@pnet51.orb.mn.org "The more I study religion, the more I become convinced that man has never worshiped anything except himself." -- Sir Richard Francis Burton