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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by sebastianavina on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:40PM (#7300769)
maybe in 50 years, new cpus or math advancements could brute force wallets and make bitcoins worthless...
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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by timmclean on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:53PM (#7300880)
maybe in 50 years, new chemistry advancements could turn water to gold and make gold worthless...
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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by evan_ on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:46PM (#7301245)
Maybe in 50 years clean water will be as precious as the rarest diamond...
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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by theandrewbailey on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:56PM (#7300910)
maybe in 50 years, we will be mining asteroids for precious metals...
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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by TrainedMonkey on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:30PM (#7301140)
I am sure in 50 years it would be 2064 and we would be a decade away from fusion. Just kidding about fusion, I hope...
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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by fennecfoxen on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:10PM (#7302040)
"In space, a single platinum-rich 500 meter wide asteroid contains about 174 times the yearly world output of platinum, and 1.5 times the known world-reserves of platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum)." -- Planetary Resources, http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/ (take with as many grains of salt as you feel like)

But hey, I'm sure they can spare a mission to retrieve us some gold sooner or later. :P

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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by theandrewbailey on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:08AM (#7304937)
With that much/many valuable metals there, there would have to be plenty of gold, too. I have no doubt that gold will be mined and retrieved, because it has industrial value. Not to mention its incredible economic value, and because gold.
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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by brianbreslin on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:54PM (#7302536)
I am sure Elon Musk is working on this...
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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:37PM (#7301185)
Maybe in 50 years, we'll be mining those asteroids and Saturn's rings for water.
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