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An asteroid made of gold and precious metals in NASA'S sights

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An asteroid made of gold and precious metals in NASA'S sights By CNEWS - updated 21/01/2020 at 12:57 pm Published on 1/1/2020 12:57 pm Astéroïde Psycho 16 (artistes impression). [NASA] The 2020s promises to be full of discoveries for Nasa. And among the most anticipated missions, the one concerning the asteroid "Psyche 16", promises to capture the attention of space exploration enthusiasts as well as the general public. And for good reason, since the asteroid would harbor an immense quantity of gold and precious metals. All for an estimated value of 700 quintillion of dollars, or 700 billion of a thousand billion billion of dollars. Or $ 93,000 billion per capita of the Earth (if one does not take into account the consequent devaluation of gold if such a redistribution was carried out). The mission was named by Nasa "Psyche: journey to a metal world". The "Psyche" probe is to be launched in 2022 from the Kennedy Space ...

A Modest Proposal by Dr. Jonathan Swift

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A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public. by Dr. Jonathan Swift Copyright © 1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbados. I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, o...

DUBLINERS by James Joyce

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DUBLINERS by James Joyce Contents THE SISTERS AN ENCOUNTER ARABY EVELINE AFTER THE RACE TWO GALLANTS THE BOARDING HOUSE A LITTLE CLOUD COUNTERPARTS CLAY A PAINFUL CASE IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM A MOTHER GRACE THE DEAD THE SISTERS There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: “I am not long for this world,” and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the window, I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and t...