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The Comet That Hit the Earth 12 Thousand Years Ago, and It Destroyed Art's Mega Fauna

A comet that hit the earth 12 thousand years ago killed huge animals, but it didn't kill us. The extinction of woolly mammoths and sabre tooted tigers is thought to have been caused by this comet. But if you ahuman who traded in the tusks of mammoths then you all of a sudden became rich,. because the same comet that delivered the platinum killed all the mammoths, and now there's only a certain amount of mammoth tusks. So in that case, scarcity creates value. If a comet hit to morrow, and the comet was made of gold, then we'd be folked. It would probably cause huge economic collapse.

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