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How much metal will they realistically be able to bring back from an asteroid? I don't know anything about this but it seems improbable that we'd go from being
by melq 7y ago
How much metal will they realistically be able to bring back from an asteroid? I don't know anything about this but it seems improbable that we'd go from being able to bring home a few moon rocks right to 700 quintillion dollars worth of gold.
- perl4ever 7y agoQuote: "There is a lot of gold right here on Earth that has not been dug up! Because it is pretty deep underground or whatever. The relevant supply of gold is the stuff that can be extracted economically, not just the stuff that exists. The same thing is even more true hundreds of millions of miles away in outer space. You cannot just send a big dump truck to Psyche 16, shovel some loose gold nuggets into it, and drive it back to your house."