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SCOUT· 69%25m·2025-06-06·Science$1 trillion of platinum on the moon; how your brain distinguishes between reality and imagination; rise of the hyperworm
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Episode 306 It’s been discovered that the moon is probably home to $1 trillion worth of platinum. Researchers suggest nearly 6500 of the Moon’s craters were made by asteroids containing commercial quantities of platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium. Does that mean space companies are going to…
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