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@arstechnica there is no evidence it is needed and we can't do it safely.
Some companies think they can "disrupt" and get away with no checks and monitoring and that is why it tries to make appealing.
In reality, most of technologies that might need it actually are getting better technologies without such mining.
It is just wrong investors bet on it wrongly again.

@arstechnica It is the last frontier for exploitation. After all the landmass has been eroded. It will not hold.

@arstechnica If we’re not mining Manganese nodules off the ocean floor, then how are we going to covertly recover sunk Soviet submarines?

@arstechnica and nothing was learned about the BP shitshow. Because that's how this world works companies fuck the environment. And this current government does not give a single shit and just lets it carry on as is. Because giving a shit about the environment is for pussies... and Republicans in the 1970s.