So let’s get down to the brass tacks. What would Planet Nine be worth?

Add up all the media, all the missions, all the postocs, all those pre-singularity economics and you come up with about $10B. That’s a discovery that would claw back about 10% of the value that Astro-Twitter managed to destroy by hyping up Google’s Bard-JWST debacle.

Astra sez the odds that Planet Nine exists are one in five. With the computational set-up described in yesterday’s post:

I have the M4 Max extracting — in expectation, mind you — 6.9e-6 Planet Nines per hour. That’s $69,000 in expectation per hour every hour from a laptop that’s long since been a sunk cost.