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NASA to explore space rock worth so much money it would DESTROY world economy
Daily Star ^ | 16th January 2017 | Peter Truman

Posted on 01/16/2017 4:24:39 PM PST by COBOL2Java

THE American space agency is planning to send a spacecraft to a lump of metal in space worth quadrillions of dollars.

The 200km-wide asteroid is currently orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

It is made up of various precious metals such as iron, nickel and gold.

Experts believe the iron alone in the rock would be worth $10,000 quadrillion – enough to cause the world’s economy, worth $73.7 trillion, to promptly collapse altogether.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 201701; asteroid; asteroidmining; asteroids; astronomy; gold; iron; jupiter; mars; metal; nasa; nickel; nickelmining; science; spaceforce
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To: COBOL2Java

All the gold, ain’t in California in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name. It’s in an asteroid, but the US isn’t gonna get it because we shut down our space program.


21 posted on 01/16/2017 4:39:48 PM PST by ImNotLying (The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
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To: COBOL2Java

I remember reading a book about a large gold meteorite and it’s affect on the world economy when I was young. Might have been Jules Verne or H.G. Wells, but I don’t recall. Eerily similar.


22 posted on 01/16/2017 4:40:03 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: COBOL2Java

If NASA goes there, claim it for the US. Forget that BS about it for everyone. Same with the moon. we go back, claim it. Not one inch for the Chinese.


23 posted on 01/16/2017 4:43:00 PM PST by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp: Replace Ryan & McConnell; Primary Lyn' Ted and others.)
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To: COBOL2Java

DIBS! I saw if first! I claim, ‘The Law of the High Seas’ or some other obscure time/space/oceanic law that applies! Space is basically one big ocean, Right?

I’m calling Saul. *SMIRK*


24 posted on 01/16/2017 4:44:21 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Oh, crud! Dr. Evil is going to ask for, ‘ONE MILLION DOLLARS!’

I just know it, LOL!


25 posted on 01/16/2017 4:45:23 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Maybe the Russians will give us a ride.


26 posted on 01/16/2017 4:46:12 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: COBOL2Java

Wouldn’t it merely depress the price of those metals?


27 posted on 01/16/2017 4:47:28 PM PST by GingisK
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To: COBOL2Java

Why not just hollow it out and make a space dock, build ships there.With all that alloy you can do anything.


28 posted on 01/16/2017 4:48:01 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: BitWielder1

Don’t forget the added costs of the environmental impact study. [It doesn’t have to make sense, it’s government.]


29 posted on 01/16/2017 4:49:24 PM PST by piasa
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To: COBOL2Java

Space rock? Like Alan Parsons Project?


30 posted on 01/16/2017 4:50:12 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: al baby

“No one is going to go up there and mine that thing an a quadrillion years so bfd”

They may mine it sometime in the next 50 years. But that’s only after getting it to market is cost effective.

I suspect the value of the iron in the earth is equally huge. But it hasn’t destroyed the world economy yet.


31 posted on 01/16/2017 4:51:38 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: COBOL2Java

For a less dramatic description of this asteroid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche


32 posted on 01/16/2017 4:52:22 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Raycpa

I have Amazon Prime. Where do I send my dollar?


33 posted on 01/16/2017 4:52:36 PM PST by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: moovova

...Just drop that baby in my backyard...

Or anywhere near Hollywood, Beverly Hills, or Malibu Beach California.


34 posted on 01/16/2017 4:53:07 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: COBOL2Java

Free air and rainwater haven’t destroyed the world economy yet. I don’t see how free iron and nickel would.


35 posted on 01/16/2017 4:53:37 PM PST by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: CrazyIvan

““That’s no asteroid! That’s a space station!””

It’s Fhloston paradise. Big Bada Boom!


36 posted on 01/16/2017 4:54:26 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (CNN - The Chicken Noodle Network)
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To: COBOL2Java

Transport costs prevent the materials from being sent by the literal ton to Earth. Most likely use would be construction in the asteroid belt ... which is decades off if not longer.


37 posted on 01/16/2017 4:54:32 PM PST by tbw2
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To: AndyTheBear

It’s worth nothing. The cost of getting it would far outweigh the value of the materials.

Put it another way you know exactly where $500 is buried in Antartica. Would you go get it?


38 posted on 01/16/2017 4:57:57 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: ImNotLying

I read years ago about some Pacific Islanders who counted their wealth by boulders in a lagoon, for which they traded much as we are used to trading for stocks. Makes sense, actually.


39 posted on 01/16/2017 4:58:59 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: hadaclueonce

What?
This makes no economic sense.
Value is what someone is willing to pay for.
Fake news.


You don’t seem to understand what “Fake News” is. It is about a planned mission and the possibilities of such mission. It s not fake news.


40 posted on 01/16/2017 4:59:41 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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