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#581 - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Understanding The Wonders Of Science
Modern Wisdom
The Earth's Crust Is Made of Rock
Asteroids with more gold on it than has ever been mined in the his mind or extracted in the history of the world are out there. If you last sued one of these asteroids and brought it back to earth, every one of the metals in that would be completely transformed. And so people's inventiveness which previously was constrained because of how expensive it was could open up whole new marketplaces. Just think about that. Look how cheap computers are. Do people worry about the collapse of the computer industry? No. They found other things to do undreamtive by that earlier generation.
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