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>>3637498
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%286178%29_1986_DA
>Asteroid 1986 DA achieved its most notable recognition when scientists revealed that it contained over "10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum", or an approximate value at the time of its discovery of "$90 billion for the gold and a cool trillion dollars for the platinum, plus loose change for the asteroid's 10 billion tons of iron and a billion tons of nickel."[3]

>>3512582
>so Mars' core is actually too HOT to produce a magnetic field right now. If we started pulling geothermal heat out, it would help cool the core and restart the magnetic field. This seems to have already happened at one point in Martian history during a period of relatively strong volcanism.
Astonishing! Thanks!

>How can you possibly determine that the robot in question doesn't truly feel pain?
My brain, it melts

>mfw reading about Ascension Island
The TRS may have just been accelerated by five years.