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Copper ring almost made the Earth look like Saturn

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 13, 2013 | 5:34 pm Base Metals Europe Copper 

While these days the talk seems to revolve around the idea of mining asteroids, during the Cold War US Government-backed scientists came up with a plan to wrap a ring of copper wire around the Earth to serve as a...

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