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Only one-eighth of the solar system should be mined - study

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | May 19, 2019 | 7:55 am Education Europe Iron Ore 

Martin Elvis, senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, and Tony Milligan, a philosopher at King’s College London, collaborated on a study that concludes that humans should be allowed to mine only one-eighth of eligible planets, moons and...

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