Planetoid Mining, Key to the Space Economy |
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Planetoid Mining, Key to the Space Economy |
 Feb 9 2006, 06:47 PM
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* Asteroid Mining: Key to the Space Economy http://www.space.com/adastra/060209_adastra_mining.html The Near Earth Asteroids offer both threat and promise. They present the threat of planetary impact with regional or global disaster. And they also offer the promise of resources to support humanity's long-term prosperity on Earth, and our movement into space and the solar system. * 'Big' Discovery: Hypergiant Stars Might Harbor Planets http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0602...iant_stars.html s said today. * Image of the Day: Force Fit on Mars http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_060209.html What happens when wind and volcanoes work on Mars? NASA's Spirit Mars rover is finding out. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 11 2006, 08:53 AM
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Would they be sending humans up there to do the mining or robots? I didn't see it in the article.
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Feb 11 2006, 08:07 PM
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QUOTE (Katie @ Feb 11 2006, 09:53 AM) Would they be sending humans up there to do the mining or robots? I didn't see it in the article.  Neither: Russians! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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