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TA wrote on 2012-04-24 12:50
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Phyllis2011you wrote on 2012-04-24 13:03
Thanks for sharing.
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Sekwaf wrote on 2012-04-24 15:38
Just skimmed but I've been thinking this was a good idea for a long time. Namely I thought about it after reading the Troy rising series, difference there was that they put mirrors (and I mean a ton of them) into space to focus sun rays into a directional beam that would mine the iron out of the asteroids (and later be used as a superweapon to defend earth). This idea works too...I suppose.
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EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-04-24 17:16
I don't see how they will be making money for a long time. However, in terms of long term development down the line, it is a good start though.
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whocares8128 wrote on 2012-04-24 17:31
Not all R&D is done for immediate profit. I'm just a little concerned though how this could play out. Where are the laws to protect our natural space resources? or to define who owns which asteroids?
inb4
Oops, we just sent a huge asteroid on a collision course for Earth.
(And you thought that whole thing with BP was bad.)
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Taycat wrote on 2012-04-25 09:09
Asteroid Necklace: It's out of this world!
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Cucurbita wrote on 2012-04-25 09:16
This will never get enough funding because humans aren't capable of investing long term outside their own life expectancy.
And most likely, these projections are too optimistic.
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User495 wrote on 2012-04-25 09:35
Quote from whocares8128;847218:
Not all R&D is done for immediate profit. I'm just a little concerned though how this could play out. Where are the laws to protect our natural space resources? or to define who owns which asteroids?
could you really define asteroids as natural?
and you know it's pretty simple to just stamp an asteroid or stick a flag in one or something to indicate who owns it
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whocares8128 wrote on 2012-04-25 14:26
Quote from Seviraph;847850:
could you really define asteroids as natural?
Of course I can, just as the Earth is natural, and our Sun, and just about everything in the universe. Asteroids certainly weren't man-made, or were they?
Quote from Seviraph;847850:
and you know it's pretty simple to just stamp an asteroid or stick a flag in one or something to indicate who owns it
I suppose the United States now owns the entire moon then, right? I hope we stuck a flag on Mars, because that would be cool to have a whole other planet as a US territory.
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Royale wrote on 2012-04-26 10:02
there was a livesteam of Planetary Resources news conference on the 24th, watched a bit and it shows some real promise, this will ether be a history in the making or a spectacular failure. I hope it's former, since humanity will be be i serious trouble if we don't colonize another planet in two, three hundred years.
here's a partial recording of that conference
[video=youtube;t0c9oZh4vTo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t0c9oZh4vTo[/video]