Gold Comes From Space?!

Rant about 13 years agoby Mick Joest

"Reinstate NASA. Tell them we need a bigger shuttle."

Back when Earth was only a 1,000,000,000 years old (and to scientists best estimate, in it's awkward teenage years) the earth was still being pelted by meteorites, a s*** ton of them (Science jargon). It is now being theorized that these meteorites gave Earth most of the Noble metals that exist on our planet today, if not all. In the words of Dr. Willbold, researcher on the project...

Our work shows that most of the precious metals on which our economies and many key industrial processes are based have been added to our planet by lucky coincidence when the Earth was hit by about 20 billion billion tonnes of asteroidal material

Pretty crazy right? Blowin yo mind with Science yet? If not imagine the implications this news has for sci-fi writers?

Exospheronic Gold Rush anyone?

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Mick Joest

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I started out as a loyal reader of Geektyrant before emailing Joey one day about the potential of writing for Geektyrant. Now six years later I'm the managing editor of Gametyrant.com and still living the dream and giving my opinion to the geek masses! Geektyrant is my life, and I hope that shows in everything I do!
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