Elon Musk
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Yeah, those are from impacts.
You definitely didn't want to be there at the time because anything would have been obliterated.
But that's where the sources of nickel and cobalt are these days.
There are cases where there's very nickel-rich asteroids, meteorites.
And that's what it is for something from space.
Yeah, it doesn't mean it's...
It'll be a very sort of heavy spaceship if you make it all out of nickel.
No, it would obliterate a continent type of thing.
It depends on what the total mass is, but...
I mean the thing is like in the fossil record there are – there's like arguably five major extinction events like the biggest one of which is the Permian extinction where almost all life was eliminated.
That actually occurred over several million years.