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Planetoid Mining, Key to the Space Economy

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Feb 9 2006, 06:47 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Science/Astronomy: * 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