To: go4it who wrote (5065 ) 2/12/1998 11:54:00 PM From: SnakeInATuxedo Read Replies (4) | Respond to
Charles: Mr. Smith's Post #5066 is one insight to your pondering "why?", and I agree with his perception. Another thing to consider is simply this: it hasn't completely sunk in on everyone following the DD's just how *BIG* a deal this is. As a result, there are those who still feel it's some sort of semi-zero-sum game, where there have to be "winners" and, by nature, "losers". Naturally, everybody wants to be with a "winner", and in our naturally competitive world, some feel that winning must be at the expense of someone else losing; thus, not realising that this pie is big enough for all of us, all of our children, all our children's children... etc... some feel they have to play a silly game of "beggar thy neighbour" with the DD's and cast aspersions on DD's they don't happen to own in the hope of... I don't know for sure what they're hoping for... somehow making "their" favourite DD be the most successful. I don't remember what thread it was on, this one, maybe MXAM, maybe Mike's "New Age in Gold...." thread, but I suggested that the DD's should form a holding company to "own" each of their respective methods of extraction and barter the rights to each amongst themselves with royalties between them based on how much "goodies" they each got out of their dirts using not only their method but maybe the method of another one of the companies. Call it "co-opetition" if you will. Sure, we want them to compete, but there's a case to be made, I think, for sharing some of this extraction technology achievement - IF they all get to participate in the rewards of sharing. Will such an agreement be easy? No, of course not. But some "out-of-the-box" thinking needs to go on here, again as I said, because this is bigger than any of us can imagine. We're all semi-mesmerised by the numbers of tons of head ore each of these companies control and have to work with. Now, we're starting to see some of the "goodies" that can be had out of every one of those tons. Mike makes an excellent case over on his "New Age.. " thread that some real breakthroughs in extraction are about to be made. And let me finish with one final thought: are we really going to believe that this little patch of desert in Arizona is the only spot on this whole Earth that has micro-cluster mineralisation of this sort? Once these DD's start popping out "goodies" and prove they're there, people are going to start scouring every inch of the world for other "DD"-type deposits. And they're going to find them, too. Nothing is as un-stoppable as somebody with a dream.
