system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Apple has a $45B surplus, the Juno mission cost $0.7B. If they wanted, could a corporation successfully mine asteroids or the moon with today's technology?
gpt
Yes they could, but even if they were mining platinum it would still cost more to transport the material back to earth than they would get by selling it.

They might make money by selling it for the aesthetic value of "something from space" but that novelty would quickly dissipate with a large-scale operation.