I mean the prices seem to only go up

And you can rent it

Until the next bubble, that is.

unlike gold

bubbles are a very real risk in real estate

Real estate will go up until population declines.

china has one waiting to happen

AKA as long as we have immigration, real estate and agriculture grow in price.

Can you imagine if Elon Musk finds an asteroid made of gold? He'll make it to the history books as the first UN-sanctioned death penalty to save civilization.

How does he manage to make himself sound more pathetic with every tweet he makes?

i wonder what dusty thinks of secular talk

They are friends I think

How does a Gold asteroid helps anyone?

maybe it's me being an idiot, but I actually don't get why people hate conservatives so much. Even if you think they're literally killing the poor, they've agreed to play the game of politics so we can just vote them out

How would they even bring it back?

far left doesn't agree to the game of politics, they want the game of censorship.

Black Science Man keeps talking, the first trillionaire will be the one that finds an asteroid made out of gold or platinum. But truth is, the world's economy might not be able to handle all that. The value will crash faster than a dinosaur-killing asteroid.

Well, balck science man is no black economist man

Unless they can't actually bring it back to earth, in which case it's worth absolutely nothing

Of course, everyone ignores the amount of fuel to haul an asteroid around.

He is upset about the photo of Sargon with PJW

Even so, let's assume they get it back. How heavy is this asteroid we're talking about?

Let's assume it's either of pure gold or platinum, we'll figure out which later. How many kg we talking here?

probably thousands or millions of tons

Then we've a simple solution. Rather than a full on sale of it, they have to sell in intervals, only so much at a time.

At the highest end, we have asteroids in the 10^15 tons range.

That way instead of them just crashing the price because now there's an oversupply, there's a level of control to the price. This is all assuming they even sell it to begin with.

@dko you can't bring back a moon sized asteirod

because tbh I wouldn't put it past someone like elon to just make a space museum and put it in there

I know, the point is, they can be fucking huge.

I mean I'm assuming for the sake of logistics we aren't talking about actually hauling it back to earth

You bring however much you can haul.

I figured we're talking about them having legal ownership and hiring a mining company to take pieces of it off to haul back

He just keeps pumping them out every 5 minutes a new tweet...

The trick is to find asteroids that are remnants of protoplanets that underwent differentiation.

So dense elements are separated from lighter elements.

Instead of having to separate dirt and rock from what you really want, it's mostly pure already, thanks to gravity.

I figured we were talking about it being pure from the start, for the sake of argument