Board 8 > Whoever manages to become the first asteroid miner will be the richest person

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At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1.6 km (0.99 mi) contains more than 20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals.[1][2] In fact, all the gold, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium, and tungsten that we now mine from the Earth's crust, and that are essential for economic and technological progress, came originally from the rain of asteroids that hit the Earth after the crust cooled.[3][4][5]

20 trillion dollars.

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Apparently even the rubble in asteroids contains high amounts of platinum family metals

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It's not about mining them, it's about putting asteroid tractor beams on the moon, and THEN its about mining the moon

vote gingrich 2012 global space commandant

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Unless you patented the technology or something, wouldn't you just devalue the metals because now there'd be more of it?

I don't claim to understand how inflation works.

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what if we make the earth too heavy and it falls into the sun


what then guys


huh

huh

huh

huh

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From: FAHnboy | #008
Unless you patented the technology or something, wouldn't you just devalue the metals because now there'd be more of it?

I don't claim to understand how inflation works.

You can sell off the material in limited batches to keep the value high.

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From: Viktor Vaughn | #009
what if we make the earth too heavy and it falls into the sun


what then guys

OH **** WE'RE ****ED







EVENTUALLY

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one day

far in the future


someone's gonna be like


"man its really hot today"

"wait isnt it winter"

"is that a fireball?"

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