The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.

  • Glad more research into asteroid mining is being done, the benefits it can bring to civilization are massive. Also wonder what we could learn about asteroids from Psyche.

    Although, what are you even supposed to do with $10,000 quadrillion dollars? Buy an entire continent? Things will get interesting once asteroid mining becomes available to the private sector as well.

    • The crazy dollar figures are using drug bust math. Nobody would be stupid enough to bring back so much material at once and flood the market and tank the value.

      At first, we’ll get small deliveries sold at “market value” that compete with Earth-based mining and don’t really affect the pricing. It’ll get really interesting if/when asteroid mining is the cheaper option.