<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arglebarnacle</author><text>The courses are being offered online--it&amp;#x27;s a shame grad classes are too expensive to just take for fun! Looks like $6,800 or so to take one of the two they&amp;#x27;re offering next semester, or about $12,700 for both. The Masters degree would end up costing you about $58.7k plus $1,000&amp;#x2F;semester in fees. It&amp;#x27;s a hard sell for something that still looks relatively far in the future, but I suppose if space mining is truly is your dream career, it&amp;#x27;s great that this program exists.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>School of Mines Wants to Launch the First Space Mining Program</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/want-to-learn-how-to-mine-in-space-theres-a-school-for-you/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Excluding organic materials like oil&amp;#x2F;coal&amp;#x2F;etc the global economy does not spend a lot of resources on mining.  Further, we have vast excess supply&amp;#x27;s of most of what we do mine making space based mining problematic.  Sure, it sounds good but we need to be in space for some other reasons before mining becomes practical.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>School of Mines Wants to Launch the First Space Mining Program</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/want-to-learn-how-to-mine-in-space-theres-a-school-for-you/</url></story>