Resources includes metals and consumables. The organisation could be mining the resources to sell or to use for their own space operations.
A demonstration mission is not enough, the process must be used for its intended purpose. It does not have to be regular, or frequent, but should be routine.
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1.00@JoshuaWilkes Maybe needs to have a minimum mass extracted from the asterioid, and moved at least a certain distance?
@RemNi so a couple of points:
Firstly the question is a year old and has gotten a pretty decent amount of bettors, so I'm not going to do anything that changes the criteria under which they bet.
But secondly, any attempt to put constraints on mass or distance runs the risk of excluding a common sense understanding of what asteroid mining might be. The question is deliberately broad and low-bar.
There is a YC startup dedicated to making money via mining asteroids. They are aiming to mine asteroids by the end of this decade. While it's not a given that they would succeed, I think it's a sign that asteroid mining could ultimately be feasible.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/astroforge
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/26/astroforge-raises-13m-seed-round-for-asteroid-mining-ambitions/
@JoshuaWilkes How will this market resolve if an organization routinely mines asteroids for resources before 2040, but then discontinues mining before 2040, and no organization is routinely mining astroids for resources at the start of 2040?
@LukeHanks it will have have already resolved YES in that eventuality (I appreciate the question isn't perfectly worded to communicate this)
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/regular-and-routine.2957162/post-14951052
found a good explanation of how I differentiate these terms