[meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

[Alfredo Petrov]

This news report rather distorts the meaning of the word "worth". It's not
"worth" quadrillions of $$$. It's not "worth" anything at all, because the
costs of cutting it up and lowering it down through Earth's gravity well
(safely, without destroying all civilization) far exceeds the value of the
metal.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 08:43, Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

> To be fair, we are sitting right now on a planet worth a lot more than
> that! And we don't have to go anywhere to investigate it.
>
> Resource quantity isn't really the problem. It's accessing those resources.
>
> Chris
>
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> On 1/30/2023 2:16 PM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >    Article in news, "NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70,000 times
> more than the global economy".
> >
> >
> https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/nasa-set-spacex-launch-date-29085874
> >
> > Best Always,
> > Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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