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Old 18-08-2014, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Amaranthus View Post
Those odds are based on old (2006) estimates. The latest analysis put it in the range of 1 in 4000. And I think by 2880, if we still have a civilization to be concerned about this, we'll have the tech to do essentially anything we want with this bit of space rock...
Yeah, we'll mine it into nothing but dust , as we would have consumed all our resources by then.
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