• orclev@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The far more likely scenario is that large quantities of gold are extracted from the asteroid belt. Short of someone inventing a Star Trek style replicator it just won’t ever be cost effective to create something like gold through manipulation of individual atoms. Even if we had that tech in a reasonable cost effective form it would be used for making actually rare elements not something as abundant as gold.