• Question: could we mine oil and resources from different planets?

    Asked by anon-225910 to joannabarstow on 21 Nov 2019.
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      Joanna Barstow answered on 21 Nov 2019:


      Not oil, because oil is a biological product! Oil formed from dead plants and algae, so we wouldn’t expect to find oil on another planet. We could mine metal ores from asteroids and other planets, but there’s debate about whether or not we have the right to do so, and if we do how to regulate it.

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