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		gaius on Feb 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) I expect if you had 5000 asteroids worth of iron, you'd have to pay people to take it off your hands.

arethuza on Feb 3, 2011 [–]

An 800m iron asteroid would make a rather nasty weapon.... (about 75000Mt, probably considerably more than all of the nuclear weapons that have ever existed).

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