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Surprisingly, yes. They made a bid with NASA for $5 to have a representative of Nestle on any manned mission to asteroids for the purpose of collecting water samples to extract up to 90% of any sample going forward, to use as drinking water that will be sold to consumers for a record breaking $5,999,999,999.95 per bottle of space water.
At first NASA declined, because they projected that most, if not all of the future asteroid related missions would be unmanned, they ultimately settled on a $4 dollar contract to harvest 95% of manned missions that collect water of any origin in the cosmos and an astounding 98% of water collected from unmanned missions to asteroids, with NASA also footing the bill for any processing/testing related to ensuring the water handed over to Nestle is drinkable.
I'm just waiting to hear about the clause where we fire the Nestle board into the sun.
We need a plan lol