Matt Gialich
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That's it?
It's pretty small.
The shit's really dense.
That's why it's worth a lot of money, right?
It's a very dense element that we're going after these six elements.
So it kind of works out perfectly to be the first one we bring back.
And then obviously, Sean, as we look at it, Platinum is where we're starting.
As prices change, as we're able to lower spacecraft, as we start thinking about things like, hey, we launch one at a time right now, what if we bought an entire Falcon 9?
We could fit about 20 spacecraft on it.
What if we bought an entire Starship?
We could fit, I don't know how many, but I'm sure it's a shitload of spacecraft on it, right?
And like, as these technologies advance and we get lower cost into space, we can do a lot more for cheaper.
And then other metals start to meet that price threshold, right?
You have indium, you have- Indium.
Indium is an element that's in pretty high concentration on these metal asteroids.
We have quite a few of the rare earth elements on these metal asteroids.
You can look at nickel, you can look at iron, you can look at cobalt, right?
You can look at these different elements and see when do they hit the price threshold where it makes sense to actually bring them back.
Obviously, if our economy keeps expanding at that 3% per year as world GDP, as I mentioned, we're going to have to push out.
We're going to use everything here.