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by deadly-penguin 898 days ago
Those sorts of things are currently available and aren't much like a mining rig.

Deep sea mining rigs don't really manipulate the nodules so much as hoover them up - there wouldn't be as much backlash if it was just picking nodules up.

There's a picture of an early rig here: https://blogs.noc.ac.uk/jc241-smartex/prologue-smartex