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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?
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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.
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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).
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