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vatys
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Earth’s innermost layer is a 644 kilometer wide ba...
If we started mining the earth’s core, it would seem infinite at first. Can we be trusted to only take a little bit and not eventually hollow it out?
cossatot
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If we took the entire core to the surface (without collapsing the Earth which is impossible) we would cover the Earth with iron and nickel to a depth of hundreds of km.
notfed
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If at some point we become anywhere advanced enough to do so, surely we could switch to mining other planets/objects.
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