Supply and demand. If we were only using it for our purposes here on earth, such as for hard drives as suggested in the article, then the price would plummet and the materials would be less precious (this could of course be moderated like South Africa does with diamonds). However, the idea here is that precious…

We estimated 100s of millions of bison as well.. didn't take long. We are parasite, hear us destroy.

Won't the ability to cause an influx of precious material make that material less precious? I'm just curious to see what the prices of the metals they bring back do when this starts.