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2021-06-19 Science & Technology

Asteroid that was once thought to be worth $10,000 quadrillion and make everyone a BILLIONAIRE could actually be just a pile of rubble, new study suggests

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-19 00:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Hi yo! Galactic prospectors;
gunslingers, clerks, conscripters.

Reports that budgeted machine,
of bespectacled space marines;

Wealth! Floating with abandon.
Bling! And nary a Wakandan!

"Conquer! Seize whatever's in it!"
For what may just be Thanos' shit.

For all that glitters is not Aurum.
Except allocation harum scarum.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-19 01:07|| 2021-06-19 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Eros is the asteroid with more gold than the core of the Earth.

Posted by 3dc 2021-06-19 01:39|| 2021-06-19 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Np.

Declare it a 'meme' stock and tell the Redditeers that galactic shorts are about to squeezed... we'll all be billionaires in no time.

Posted by Craising Hapsburg9920 2021-06-19 01:56|| 2021-06-19 01:56|| Front Page Top

#4

NASA MEDIA Budget HYPE again followed by FACTS years later....

From one of my really older postings.
Eg. Mars Rocks Found on Antarctica
Years ago some Eggheads at NASA needed to justify a lifetime of MARS research grants and they all of a sudden found rocks with indications of life in them and they happen to only find them in the most inaccessible place in the world.

NASA happens to go the Antarctica, happens to find a rock, the rock that happens to contain a fossil, that happened to have survived being formed into molten rock, survived being blasted into space, survived traveling between 38.6 million miles to 62.07 million miles over 100’s of thousands of years and survived 1000’s of degrees of burning up on reentry heat to earth and successfully landed and survived, by their own estimate, 100’s of 1000's of years in earths meanest, harshest weather environment, without being worn down into sand or dust?
Yea Right.

This NASA PR balloon piece was used to sway public opinion and US Congress budget funding for a Mars Mission and another Eggheads attempts at a long running meal ticket? According to the Eggheads even if we get to mars and find no life we can learn from that also and learn ways of avoiding what happen there here on earth.
(The Climate Change hook also ☻)

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-19 06:58|| 2021-06-19 06:58|| Front Page Top

This is a costly effort which will take a significant amount of time and resources.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-19 07:04|| 2021-06-19 07:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Researchers believe it could be 82.5 percent metal, 7 percent low-iron pyroxene and 10.5 percent carbonaceous chondrite

It could also have as much as 35 percent empty space inside

Habitat?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-19 08:56|| 2021-06-19 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 if you print enough money, then everyone is a billionaire

leftist economics 101

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-06-19 09:38|| 2021-06-19 09:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Good point; 80s action movie dollars or 20s franchise prequel amount?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-19 12:49|| 2021-06-19 12:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Supports #4 & #5

Source: Sketchy Science Blog

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Posted by Clatle Johnson6602 2021-06-19 14:00|| 2021-06-19 14:00|| Front Page Top

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