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Why is Trump dedicating unprecedented attention and resources to space?

Metal Asteroid Hurtling Through Space Could Wipe Out...U.S. Debt! Youtube Link

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1 posted on 08/31/2019 9:57:10 AM PDT by infool7
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If you have too much of anything, it gets devalued and worthless.

Imagine if there were mountains of gold on Earth. It would cease to be a rare metal and no more valuable than iron.


47 posted on 08/31/2019 3:46:16 PM PDT by adorno
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Of course when you introduce that much metal into the market the price collapses. It’ll have to be harvested very slowly.


48 posted on 08/31/2019 3:48:53 PM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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I heard that the asteroid already fell onto...Greenland.


55 posted on 08/31/2019 6:08:11 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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How do you get pieces of it through atmosphere? You cant have a large piece of it crashing into the earth and small pieces on a capsule or craft wouldn’t recover the cost of launching the craft.


56 posted on 08/31/2019 6:54:26 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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And how do you slow down a trillion pound rock at a million miles per hour?

That momentum cost makes the asteroid unusable.


74 posted on 09/01/2019 4:33:20 AM PDT by TheNext (Leader of the Happy People of the World)
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A glut of metal would only depress the market for that particular metal.


77 posted on 09/01/2019 7:23:21 AM PDT by GingisK
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83 posted on 09/01/2019 6:12:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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