It's a heady subject and this article doesn't do it justice. Most intriguing to me is the eclectic range of entrepreneurs and what technology will be born from multi-pronged private endeavors such as this.
Also, I don't think it's going to be a jump from earth to asteroid to mine, but from earth to moon seems the most logical and the next rung in that evolutionary ladder.
Which open up a broad range of 'territorial' problems. Just imagine, the first lunar war.
1 posted on
05/03/2015 10:43:24 PM PDT by
Usagi_yo
To: Usagi_yo
Neil is anything but, prescient.
Anyone could make that guess...
2 posted on
05/03/2015 10:50:26 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Usagi_yo
NdgT can go kiss my ass. Self-centered conceited sonofabich.
5 posted on
05/03/2015 10:56:36 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Usagi_yo
9 posted on
05/03/2015 11:11:49 PM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
To: Usagi_yo
It would take 100 years of mining some really special stuff to offset the cost of the mining.
10 posted on
05/04/2015 5:02:34 AM PDT by
G Larry
(Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
To: Usagi_yo
Space travel will never be profitable. Mining asteroids is ridiculous. We have a planet filled with the same stuff.
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