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Re:Hubble Telescope Captures a Rare Asteroid Worth 70k Times... by scarmig on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:45PM (#26611795)
Simple solution: just crash this 140 mile diameter asteroid into Australia so it's accessible and cheap to mine. Afterwards the prices of iron and nickel would drop to zero!
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Re:Hubble Telescope Captures a Rare Asteroid Worth 70k Times... by MauranKilom on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:00PM (#26611962)
> Afterwards the prices of iron and nickel would drop to zero!

...and so would the prices of everything else. As well as the number of life-bearing planets in the solar system.

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