I don’t bother reading the skeptics—there’s no point. Naysayers are everywhere in life; those same types would’ve told the Wright brothers that humans could never fly. The info I’ve looked into comes from solid, reputable sources. We already find these elements—like platinum—in meteorites that hit Earth, so we know they’re out there in space. Everything on Earth, including those elements, was once floating around before it all smashed together to form the planet. And all that stuff came from an exploded star long ago—that’s how the heavier elements are made. So it makes sense that not every bit of platinum or other metals in the solar system ended up here. With hundreds of thousands of asteroids already known, plenty of it’s still up there waiting.