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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Effects of Neutron Star Mergers on the World Economy
We happen to be at some distance from the nearest collision of two neutron stars so we have a certain amount of gold on earth and it's very valuable because it's rare. Even practical issues to do with the world economy would be heavily influenced by how close we are to a site of a neutron star merger. A neutron star merger also produces uranium so gold and uranium the sources of evil on earth you know uh uranium is used for nuclear weapons so if we ever meet another civilization that happened to be born close to such a site they might have much more uranium and much more gold than we have, says Lord Tebbit.
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