[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reminds me of an old Donald Duck-Uncle Scrooge comic book from around 1960 in which they find, hiding behind the moon, a solid gold mini-moon. And the race is on.

[Fhios]

Drill down and build an underground space station. Then build a a giant rail gun that shoots cargo to and fro.

[BitWielder1]

It won't destroy the word economy, it will add to it.
Or the Solar System's economy, once we get there.

[montag813]

Short gold tomorrow. Will be worth $100 by 2117

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Delivery cost for the metals currently prohibitive.

[JoeProBono]

[Eagles6]

Earth First! (We’ll mine the other planets later)

[clearcarbon]

Future site of Motel 6?

[covertInLA]

While obviously we cannot get at it now, that seems useful in the future assuming we have some energy breakthrough. 200 km of metal OUTSIDE of the gravity well.

But yeah. kind of fake news today.

[Wuli]

The apocalyptic economic claims about the asteroid are the height of stupidity.

The “wealth” contained in the asteroid would, if it could be exploited, take probably more than a century to be gradually obtained and made use of, and thus making only a small annual contribution to the global economy.

[Oztrich Boy]

NASA to explore space rock worth so much money it would DESTROY world economy....

especially it if impacts the surface.