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		Ekaros on Aug 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appea... 15-20 years? I would doubt that range if the process was started yesterday. Any reasonable complex project of closing that scale takes longer time than that. And those have no real unknowns.

goldfishgold on Aug 25, 2024 [–]

CA high speed rail has taken 16 years so far with another 15 on the horizon, and that required 0 novel technology.

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