robots and industrial modules
controlled by ai
and solar cell satellites and/or nuclear reactors
are sent with reusable rockets
to the asteroid belt in the solar system
and those robots and industrial modules
produce more robots, industrial modules,
solar cell satellites and nuclear reactors
on those asteroids
while those robots extract more matter
from those asteroids
and orbiting solar cell satellites
and/or nuclear reactors on the surface
powers that industrial activity
and those robots and industrial modules
build maglev rails
which functions as mass accelerators
on the surface of asteroids
or floating in space between asteroids
and those robots and industrial modules
extract gold from those asteroids
and then the mass accelerators send
very large packets of gold to planet earth
those packets of gold need braking rockets
so that the gold doesn't vaporize into gold dust
in the atmosphere of planet earth
some asteroids have obscene amounts of gold
so to avoid that asteroid gold
doesn't collapse the price of gold on planet earth
and thereby disrupt the economic markets on planet earth
then the goverments of planet earth
could impose quotas of how much asteroid gold
will be legally imported to the surface of planet earth
while a lot of that gold is bought legally
by the reserve banks of each country
to increase the gold reserve of each country
and a lot of gold is kept
in space station banks orbiting planet earth
that functions like offshore tax free havens
and the remaining gold is sent to the mars colonies
where no quotas of asteroid gold import exist
which entice more people to move to mars
as the population of planet earth grows
then governments will allow more asteroid gold
to be imported to the surface of planet earth
so that the amount of gold per person
doesn't quickly increase
which could destabilize the price of gold
on the markets of planet earth
it's probably unavoidable that legal asteroid gold
will be smuggled illegally to the surface of planet earth
by criminal networks
and sold to the private markets
the asteroid belt contains
between 170 billion and 550 billion metric tons of gold
while the asteoid ceres contains
between 100 billion and 160 billion metric tons of gold
each packet of gold sent from the asteroid belt
could contain 100 tons of pure gold
encased in a shield of carbon or ceramics
to protect it from atmosperic entry