That i totaly agree with you, even optimistic estimates say a time duration of probaly 50 years until space mining will really start.
BUT kurzweil and de grey said we just need to live until 2050 with a healthy body and then we can easily buy 100 more years of lifetime.
BUT kurzweil and de grey said we just need to live until 2050 with a healthy body and then we can easily buy 100 more years of lifetime.

Jesus christ this forum is filled to the brim with bugmen and Vitalik Buterin-style, wannabe authoritarian technocrats that have no real world experience with anything. There's not gonna be jack shit for mining silver or gold in space unless the price of gold was orders of magnitude higher than it is now. Okay, so gold goes to $10k and silver goes to $300-500. What happens then? We STILL completely ignore space mining and just mine the shit on the ocean floor because it would still be vastly cheaper than going to space to get it.
Oh, and who exactly are you going to PAY to risk their life going into space, one of the most dangerous places around in order to get this shit? NOBODY. That's who. NOBODY. I mean, look at the Zerohedge story about truck driving yesterday. You can't even find people to pay $80-100k to drive Hazmat trucks on the planet earth, yet you're somehow going to lure a bunch of Mexicans to travel into space for slave wages to mine gold and silver? HAHAHAHA.
Even if the entire fiat financial system completely implodes and metals go to their high area target prices of $10-20k gold and $600-$1000 silver, gold will still not be viable to mine in space and silver even LESS viable due to needing to sort through and transport more tonnage of materials to pull silver out. You would likely not ever be mining silver in space unless you were also mining things like copper and nickel in space too - a full fledged space civilization from science fiction novels that doesn't even live on earth in other words.
Peak oil (which is just mislabeled thermodynamic collapse of oil extraction) is real also. So space mining for precious metals - if it could even be done 50-100 years in the future- would likely require the entire transportation, mining, and refining process to all be done with nuclear energy. Since thermodynamic collapse of oil extraction is real, we would NEVER be going to space to search for precious metals as a first target. An energy source would always be the first target.