VLSI@DEC-MARLBORO@sri-unix (11/28/82)
From: John Redford <VLSI at DEC-MARLBORO> Correction to my flame about asteroid mining: the US steel industry produces about a hundred million tons of steel of year and earns about a hundred billion dollars. Therefore, the stuff that rolls out of the mill costs a thousand dollars a ton, not the iron ore itself as I previously said. The ore probably goes for a couple of hundred dollars a ton. /jlr --------