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NASA Is Fast-Tracking Plans to Explore a Metal Asteroid Worth $10,000 Quadrillion - C C - May 29, 2017
https://futurism.com/nasa-fast-tracking-plans-explore-metal-asteroid-worth-10000-quadrillion/
EXCERPT: NASA is fast-tracking a planned trip to 16 Psyche — an asteroid that almost completely consists of nickel-iron metal. The iron in 16 Psyche alone is estimated to be worth $10,000 quadrillion, if humans were able to somehow extract it and bring it to Earth, which sounds great, until you realize that the entire global economy is only worth $78 trillion. Injecting that much worth into the world economy would crash it, in a totally different kind of asteroid impact than most people think about. Fortunately, extracting minerals from 16 Psyche is not in NASA’s plans....