Look up a movie called "Don't look up" which has a similar story regarding a situation like this. I'll say human greed has no bounds.
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To be fair, that movie was about climate change, not really the asteroid
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Don’t look up.
I have to think of 'don't look up' now.
sooo... hiw does this work? does it "trickle down" or does it just "kaboom" into earth and we go the way of the dinosaurs?
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Or rather 100 billionaires will become trillionaires
There is probably some irony in the artist rendered likeness resembling a double siloed Death star.
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...Because that is how Capitalism works.
Hopefully that's just a joke and he understands that this is just to put the (literally) astronomical amount of gold on that asteroid in scale.
Plot twist asteroid density so low you try and throw a net around it and the whole thing dissipates into trace minerals