https://science.arizona.edu/news/conversation-asteroids-solar-system-could-contain-undiscovered-superheavy-elements
I was sus of this at first but apparently reputable journals reported on this? Slightly old news but neat, I didn't know this existed.
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@nyrath You will love this (would also be a good thing to add to the Unobtanium section of your website-- fits the holy grail for sci-fi writers, of something rare and useful found in space that cannot be easily replicated on Earth)
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@maxthefox thanks! That would fit nicely.
The only other criteria is for whatever reasons it has to be only mine-able by humans on the spot. It cannot be mined by AIs or by remote control from Earth.
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@nyrath @maxthefox Whataboutism naked singularities that leak quantum randomness?
Then it turns out that human int has evolved to do quantum in warm wet env so has sufficient error corrections to mostly overcome this effect most of the time...
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That report was based on an impossibly high mass value for 33 Polyhymnia; which was stated to be incorrect even in the sources it references.
e.g. They used the mass value given in Carry 2012, ignoring the rest of the line that labels it as inaccurate: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.4336
The asteroid's actual mass is 6 times lower and its volume is larger; bringing the density down into the normal range: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/101917502#msg39045
Johann Rafelski did his students a disservice.
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