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Re:NASA enters ‘home stretch’ to reach golden asteroid worth... by LargeTomato on Thursday July 20, 2023 @01:32PM (#36803832)
NASA, capable to capturing a $10 quintillion asteroid but, according to the hacker news commenters, completely incapable of making rational economic decisions. These Internet commenters are so smart.
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Re:NASA enters ‘home stretch’ to reach golden asteroid worth... by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday July 20, 2023 @03:08PM (#36805265)
> NASA, capable to capturing a $10 quintillion asteroid

They really aren't capable of capture. It hasn't been done yet, even for much smaller space rocks. This mission will "observe" i.e. fly by or orbit the rock.

That's all we're capable of now, so the valuation is quite moot and selling the mission on that basis is close to deceptive.

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