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Post by ShofarSoGood on Jan 16, 2017 21:36:19 GMT -5
NASA to explore space rock worth so much money it would DESTROY world economy
THE American space agency is planning to send a spacecraft to a lump of metal in space worth quadrillions of dollars. By Peter Truman / Published 16th January 2017 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. BLING: The metal in the asteroid is worth more than the world's economy Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, told Canada’s Global News: ““Even if we could grab a big metal piece and drag it back here … what would you do? “Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global resource — kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately — and protect your market? “What if you decided you were going to bring it back and you were just going to solve the metal resource problems of humankind for all time?” Videos at link
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