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Company to unveil fleet of asteroid-mining ships for deep-space colonies
FoxNews.com/Space.com ^
| 1/22/2013
| Mike Wall
Posted on 01/22/2013 5:56:37 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: csmusaret
Better have some REALLY BIG batteries. Maybe they should consult with Boeing. If you put them in space where they won't enter earth's shadow, batteries would not be necessary. The smelters themselves could be merely big mirrors focusing sunlight to the desired point.
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:28:20 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: cripplecreek
Somebody needs to be offering legitimate and affordable mineral claims to help fund this sort of thing. Obviously the primary financier of the mission would get the biggest share. Its a shot in the dark but lots of people play the lottery. Yup.
Here's the Big Problem: there is already a treaty covering space and everything in it, signed by the globalists and socialists in your government that considers all the mineral wealth in space to be the property of "all mankind". So in order to "legally" do anything like mine an asteroid, you'll have to pay off the criminals that run the U.N. I can't remember the treaty name, but it is written very similar to LOST. There are folks out there with very long time horizons who have been planning for just this type of thing, and they are going to want their cut.
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:35:38 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: zeugma
We signed the outer space treaty which doesn’t say much about private ownership in space but the moon treaty does. However we didn’t sign the moon treaty but our lack of opposition has in a sense made it defacto international law.
It does need to be overcome but it appears that many of the people working toward private space endevors are more optimistic than they have been in the past.
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:45:14 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: zeugma
I’m thinking big machines; like excavators and haulers.
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:49:33 AM PST
by
csmusaret
(I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:57:31 AM PST
by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I can see where they would have to be in good odor with the government. Look at how nervous we were when North Korea launched a defunct satellite.
Currently, NASA has been talking about a mission to bring a boxcar sized near Earth asteroid to Lunar orbit. If I were the NASA administrator, I would offer 50% of the projected cost of that mission to whichever of the two nascent
asteroid mining companies could bring back such an asteroid. This is how we got
Spaceship One, whose descendant,
SpaceShip Two, is scheduled to begin carrying paying passengers on suborbital trips later this year.
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posted on
01/22/2013 10:05:31 AM PST
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: zeugma
there is already a treaty covering space and everything in it...Like that is going to hold up in court.
If I remember correctly, I laid claim to everything in outer space and beyond back in 1955.;-)
To: KevinDavis
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01/23/2013 4:17:20 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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