Sci/Tech This Is How Asteroid Mining Will Work

[The Helper]

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Yesterday, a group of billionaires, scientists and engineers announced what could become the most important enterprise in human history since Columbus sailed West: an asteroid mining company called Planetary Resources. They want to jump start a completely new industry between the Earth and the Moon, one that will add trillions of dollars to the world economy and ensure our prosperity for centuries to come.

Is an amazing and lofty goal. One that has the potential to change our world forever. One that is risky and hard, but which they believe can be achieved within a decade. This video offers a glimpse of how space mining will work.
The tycoons

Planetary Resources is backed by people with deep pockets, like Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, film maker James Cameron, Microsoft's former Chief Software Architect Charles Simonyi, and Ross Perot, Jr. among others.

The target

There are 9,000 asteroids near Earth. Of those, about 1,500 are within easy reach using the same or less power than what was used to go to the moon.

Read the whole article and watch a video here.

 

[FireCat]

Holy crap, such dreams... "that will come true?"

Yesterday, a group of billionaires, scientists and engineers. They want to jump start a completely new industry between the Earth and the Moon
one that will add trillions of dollars to the world economy and ensure our prosperity for centuries to come.

Then go ahead, spend YOUR own money.

 

[Bronxernijn]

Jon Stewart calls B.S. on asteroid mining

 

[Hatebreeder]

Well, if the Astroids run low or if the astroids arn't rich in Resources, we could still blow up Mars and mine off of the Chunks of that float in Space

 

[Accname]

Or we could blow up mars for the evulz. Just saying.