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by wewtyflakes 12 days ago
How does 100M tons of platinum safely deorbit? Is the idea to let it crash into the sea?
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dijit 12 days ago
bit by bit, and one of the major useful properties of platinum itself is that it's so heat resistant and inert.

It's also useful to have some heavy metals off world for further expansion.

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