All The Money In The World In Just A Rock?

The money in a single meteoroid.

Brandon Kyker
Predict
2 min readJul 16, 2021

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Most people think that meteoroids are just huge rocks that fly through space with no value. Although that is what they are at the current stage in technology, later on, we could learn to harness the minerals and materials from meteoroids. There have been meteoroids in space worth $10,000 quadrillion (there are only 6.6 trillion dollars in circulation in the entire world).

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Iron meteoroids have valuable metals like iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, gold, platinum, iridium, tungsten, and much more. Meteoroids like this one can cost around $1,000 a gram. Meaning 1 pound could be worth 1 million! Now taking into account that a lot of meteoroids are thousands of tons, just a ton of that rock adds up to 2 billion, and 100 tons of that will run you about 200 billion. As we know though not all meteorites are 100 tons, the average size is around 180 grams meaning $180000 per meteoroid and there are millions of meteoroids out there. If we can just find a way to get up into space and harvest them we will have more than enough money and resources to last us a lifetime. The cost of metals and other minerals will go down, there will be a bunch more millionaires billionaires, and maybe even trillionaires on the planet due to meteoroid harvesting. That is what the future looks like.

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