Board 8 > Billionaires to announce Asteroid Mining Company

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http://now.msn.com/living/0422-asteroid-mining.aspx

Wait what?

Also hell yes if it actually happens.

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lol wait till they find out Shepard's already mined everything to mod his sniper rifle

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That's it.

Changing my future career to Asteroid Miner.

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Probing Uranus.

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This violates the Space Treaty, you know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

You can't claim private property in space, celestial objects are common heritage of mankind.

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I hope they are more prepared to handle the Hive Mind than the CEC did.

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As long as this somehow sends us closer to space colonization

Go 1%!

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From: YetAnothrShadow | #007
As long as this somehow sends us closer to space colonization

Go 1%!

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You guys are thinking way too optimistically. Think more along these lines:





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From: KanzarisKelshen | #009
You guys are thinking way too optimistically. Think more along these lines:

Actually, Weyland-Yutani came to mind first and foremost.

I might as well stick with Cloud Nine for a while though. Wake me up when it's time to bomb some Mako Reactors.

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Hopefully they'll grind up asteroid rocks to make some Propulsion and Repulsion Gel with it.

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career change time.

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So when do they start working on the Munchausen Ether Drive system? >.>

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Mining asteroids for what exactly?

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From: paperwarior | #015
Mining asteroids for what exactly?

**** and giggles obviously.

Resources duh.

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well, realistically it's them trying to figure out what they're made of and how it can be useful to us.

alternatively they're looking for the symbiote trapped in one of these things.

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Details on how this will be done are being kept quiet

Hur.

Also, how exactly do they plan on getting a mining robot to AND FROM one of these asteroids?

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1. Do people seriously not watch the news anymore? I know Diane Sawyer is awful, and can't go a week without reporting what some nobody posted on twitter as "news," but that shouldn't stop you from watching evening news. Cuz you know... old.

2. lol resources. Moar liek worthless space rocks that lesser millionaires will pay their smaller fortunes for just for the sake of owning a space rock.

3. Seriously, good luck getting into space. No, really. We need to hitch rides with russians, now.

4. Not the first time billionaires announced stupid crap like this. It's just getting attention this time because Google people are involved. Cuz you know, nobody can ever shut up about those zany google guys.

Veola posted...
3. Seriously, good luck getting into space. No, really. We need to hitch rides with russians, now.

Exactly.

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I strongly recommend reading a book called The High Frontier. It talks pretty throughly about the advantages of mining asteroids. Calling them "worthless space rocks" is silly. Asteroids are so full of metal that there is more metal in 1 km of an asteroid than in an entire country.

Getting to the asteroid belt and back isn't that hard. It takes more fuel to get from earth to the moon than it does to get from the moon to the asteroid belt and back. The big advantage of mining in space is that you can manufacture in space without having to ship materials from the earth to space. And manufacturing in space is an alround good idea. You can manufacture things in a 0g environment that you can't on earth. Like better computer chips.

As for shipping, that's easy. You don't need the transport to land on the earth, you just gotta do cargo drops, which is easy.

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The asteroid belt isn't exactly the safest place to mine or navigate, I wouldn't think.

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Eh, it's not that bad. It's mostly empty actually. You have a minute chance of even seeing an asteroid, much less colliding with one.

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Ace_Killjoy posted...
The asteroid belt isn't exactly the safest place to mine or navigate, I wouldn't think.

Contrary to science fiction, asteroid belts are less densely populated than the Sahara desert.

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Huh. I suppose that makes sense.
I still think it's nuts. How fast can those things spin?

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As much as I dislike linking to these things...
http://www.cracked.com/article_19649_6-myths-everyone-believes-about-space-thanks-to-movies.html

Navigating wouldn't be an issue. Being on them, however, is. Just look at any surface image of asteroids, meteoroids, etc. They get their asses kicked by space more than the dark side of our own moon. Yeah, it's empty out there, but not empty enough when you're sitting on the only thing with significant gravity out there.

Doggonit Cracked.com is ruining all my joy!

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Google:

Intelligent cars.
Augmented reality glasses.
Asteroid Mining

I'm just saying, as far as evil overlords go, we are pretty lucky that at the very least Google has got style. When they eventually seize control of the universe we'll be safe knowing that our eternal misery will at the very least be pretty darn cool.

From: Veola | #026
As much as I dislike linking to these things...
http://www.cracked.com/article_19649_6-myths-everyone-believes-about-space-thanks-to-movies.html

Navigating wouldn't be an issue. Being on them, however, is. Just look at any surface image of asteroids, meteoroids, etc. They get their asses kicked by space more than the dark side of our own moon. Yeah, it's empty out there, but not empty enough when you're sitting on the only thing with significant gravity out there.

You realize that the article you linked say there is not a constant dark side of the moon >_>

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unfortunately....

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You realize that the article you linked say there is not a constant dark side of the moon

You realize it's still ****ing called that, despite how inaccurate the name is, right? Sorry, but nobody's gonna start calling it "THE PART OF THE MOON WE NEVER SEE CUZ IT DOESN'T FACE US" just to appease you.

Michael Bay's half of the moon.

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