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Mining Asteroids@Home

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 10, 2003 @11:11AM from the pulled-down-from-space dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Like the lively discussion on mediation strategies for exterminating asteroids, a six-person expert panel is debating today whether humans exist because of big collisions or in spite of them. Interestingly Mexico's oil (and most of the rest of the world's resources) seem to have arisen from later mining of these byproducts: the luck of geography or the price at the pump for dead dinosaurs."

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Obligatory Paraphrase by lucasw · 2003-02-10 17:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

Asteroids are the cause of - and solution to - all our lives existence!
To Asteroids! by lucasw · 2003-02-10 17:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

The cause of - and solution to - all our lives existence!