Mining in Space

December 25, 2012 by joachim

 

“COMPANY SETS PLAN TO MINE ASTEROIDS — A Washington company intends, within a decade or so, to have an unmanned robotic mining mission to the asteroid belt.”Watch Cyberbully (2015) Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download

— New York Times, December 25, 2012

Mining asteroids is going to be fun.  But the mass of asteroids is so small, the landing craft has to be equipped with claws, to hold on to something, like a tree stump, so it’s not bounced off back into space, with billions of investment lost.

Asteroids with water are preferred since the water can be boiled down to hydrogen, as the paper reports, which is a super fuel for the way back.

But what the investors really look for, if you ask me, is the Little Prince.

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