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Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) by gaius on Thursday February 03, 2011 @06:21AM (#2174360)
No it is not - because if that much were available it would drive down the price...
Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) by slackerIII on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:32PM (#2175966)
Well, it's not like you are just going to grab the whole thing and bring it back. But I agree, a new source of rare metals would change the pricing. But, platinum is an interesting metal -- engineers could do a lot fun things with it if it wasn't so expensive.
Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) by arethuza on Thursday February 03, 2011 @06:48AM (#2174397)
In one asteroid is worth $20 trillion, how much are 5000 asteroids worth?
Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) by gaius on Thursday February 03, 2011 @07:06AM (#2174432)
I expect if you had 5000 asteroids worth of iron, you'd have to pay people to take it off your hands.
Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) by arethuza on Thursday February 03, 2011 @08:16AM (#2174582)
An 800m iron asteroid would make a rather nasty weapon.... (about 75000Mt, probably considerably more than all of the nuclear weapons that have ever existed).