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WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID?

steroids have more than enough gold, plus other precious metals, to provide a few lifetimes’ worth of fortunes. But there are plenty of other reasons asteroids are valuable. But how do we get these metals from these faraway asteroids? Perhaps

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