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07-19-2015, 01:55 PM
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 puelling pueman Poster Rank:171 m Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 8,912 Mentioned: 21 Post(s) Quoted: 2948 Post(s)
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‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
pretty awesome....though if someone could get their hands on that $5.4trillion woth of platinum it would only be worth a tenth of that, if that....the law of supply and demand
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07-19-2015, 02:07 PM
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Re: ‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
Platinum goes for about $1000 (usd) per ounce if I'm not mistaken.  A 5 gram platinum bar worth $200.  |
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07-19-2015, 05:03 PM
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Re: ‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
how cool is that  |
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07-19-2015, 05:37 PM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:333 Male Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 3,852 Mentioned: 13 Post(s) Quoted: 750 Post(s)
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Re: ‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
Yeah, probably in 50-60 years time or 100. Ever see a dumper truck on a building site clearing stuff? Those trucks weigh in excess of 30 tonnes without a load or more depending on its size. The digger which loads the earth into it is 20 tonnes or more. Now try and fly that shit out into the atmosphere within a set budget and connect it to other modules to fly to the asteroid. Then you have to get to the asteroid and mine it. Technology and ability is decades off even starting such an endeavour. |
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07-19-2015, 06:35 PM
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 ★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:100 Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 16,280 Mentioned: 62 Post(s) Quoted: 8638 Post(s)
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Re: ‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
^^^^^ this By the time you extract it and get it back to earth what will it cost per ounce? |
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07-19-2015, 07:23 PM
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 *DR's nice guy* Poster Rank:78 Male Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 19,438 Mentioned: 89 Post(s) Quoted: 7144 Post(s)
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Re: ‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
Something to always consider when investing in precious metals! All you need is a massive source of said metal (or something that does the same thing) to be discovered, or way of creating something similar artificially to be thought up, and the value of your investment could potentially crash overnight.
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07-19-2015, 08:49 PM
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 Avoiding Limelight Poster Rank:142 Male Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 11,495
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Re: ‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
Funny, You won't find UW-158 asteroid on you GPD telescope data base. |
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07-25-2015, 09:35 AM
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Re: ‘Platinum’ Asteroid Potentially Worth $5.4 Trillion to Pass Earth Today
Wow, hope they can find more uses for it. Scrubbing coal powerstations with this maybe? They say it gets dirty and needs some maintenance.
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