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The Gollum collector’s edition really is called the ‘Precious Edition’
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Preorders – Precious Edition, Bonuses, And More
Following a delay, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is finally set to release on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC on May 25 in a standard edition and an aptly-named “Precious edition” that includes a few extra goodies. It’s also releasing on Switch at a later date. If you know you want to head back to Middle-earth, Lord of the Rings: Gollum preorders are available now at Amazon.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a brand new LOTR adventure that sees players exploring the world of Middle-earth through the eyes of the nefarious Gollum with gameplay focused on stealth and agility instead of combat.
Here’s everywhere you can preorder The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, plus all the pre-purchase bonuses available.
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Small Near-Earth Asteroid Surfaces Have Few Precious Metals, Study Finds
A recent paper on ArXiv reports new spectroscopic analyses of the surfaces of 42 asteroids. The main result for space enthusiasts is that there is not one “M” class asteroid (metal-rich) surface in the collection.
The imagery that (many) people grow up with from Hollywood and TV “science” “documentaries” is that the Solar system is full of asteroids which are made of metal ready for mining to produce solid ingots of precious metals. That’s Hollywood, not reality. This result is about what you’d expect from the proportion of metallic asteroids — otherwise estimated at about 0.5% of the population.
The asteroid mining fraternity dream of taking apart an M-type asteroid like Psyche, which is fair enough as a dream. Even as a dream for “asteroid mining” metal market speculators. But they are relatively rare asteroids. A realistic “ISRU” (In-Situ Resource Utilisation) plan is going to have to expect to digest around 200 silicate mineral (and clay (“phyllosilicate”), and ice) asteroids for every metallic one they digest.
Here’s the home page for the project.
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The Most Precious Human Relics Left in Space
Being the space nerd that I am, I often imagine a museum filled with the most important objects ever sent to space. We couldn’t possibly build a place like this, but we can speculate as to which human artifacts deserve a place in our imaginary spaceflight museum.