[ExI] Rare Metal Asteroid That?s Worth $10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 3:13 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Distinguishing between 10 quadrillion and 10 quintillion is meaningless:
> you
> can get to that number if you estimate the cost of hauling all that out to
> that orbit, which would not be done.  One could very nearly as easily argue
> that the asteroid is worthless (for now) because we can't get to it at a
> practical cost with the means of using it for anything useful.
>

That number is also silly because the moment such a supply crashes the
market the demand goes to zero (or negative)

>
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