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mainvolume | 4 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 @joanna  

Asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 NASA is capturing would give everyone on Earth $1,246,105,919 each https://www.unilad.com/technology/space/nasa-psyche-16-asteroid-mission-money-503039-20241119
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nicnym | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If the gold or titanium or whatever that asteroid is made of is actually mined, then the price of those things would go to near zero. 

No one is going to pay the money to “give everyone” a billion dollars each.
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mainvolume | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You mean like Elin?
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nicnym | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What is Elin?
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mainvolume | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The lady giving away a million to anybody who talks.
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nicnym | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How do I get a million too?
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mainvolume | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Go talk to Elin
Sing
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mainvolume | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How do I join?
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mainvolume | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don’t have much time to spend any, I’m up for deletion.
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nicnym | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What kind of sources to you have access to? Verbose