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Psyche asteroid is worth $10,000-quadrillion, and NASA wants to mine it (www.earth.com)
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The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Glad more research into asteroid mining is being done, the benefits it can bring to civilization are massive. Also wonder what we could learn about asteroids from Psyche.

Although, what are you even supposed to do with $10,000 quadrillion dollars? Buy an entire continent? Things will get interesting once asteroid mining becomes available to the private sector as well.