• Nic Cage@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    In addition to knowing less than nothing about semiconductor design and manufacturing, you have no idea about elemental composition of objects in space.

    “they have more rare earth metals than any place in the Milky Way”

    Now at 11! Iron, nickel, platinum, iridium, and more just hanging out in our solar system? Meet 16 Psyche! The dense, metal rich asteroid that has potential to supply the world with rare earth elements!

    The Milky Way is a very, very large place my friend, there is an almost guaranteed certainty there is another body with a far higher concentration of what we call rare earth elements than China or the entirety of Earth itself.