Matt Gialich
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And those prices will continue to fall.
And this will continue to be more economically viable as we go into the future.
I have no idea.
Literally have no idea what we use indium for.
I study it from an economic value proposition, not from a scientific one.
Any gold, silver?
So gold is in higher concentrations on asteroids than it is in your backyard.
They're not high enough for me to mine.
Gold on Earth forms because of water.
This is, I should say, high concentrations of gold form.
Gold doesn't form.
High concentrations of gold deposits form in the presence of water.
This is why you see it in veins.
And this is why, when you think of gold mining, you think of like panning for gold on a river, because that's where all the shit is.
It's not really economically viable.
We even have to remove too much material from the asteroid to get enough gold to make the return trip back right now.
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
The best way that I think...
This is a question that has a little bit bigger meaning, which is kind of funny to me about, I think, a lot of founders is, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about this grand future of how many satellites I'm going to set up or what this is going to look like.