<p>Whoa, chill.</p>
<p>I share your excitement, but the political economy of space exploration has always been pegged in the order of tens or several hundred billion dollars. We still need to make a lot of things pay off for itself at vastly cheaper cost!</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 20, 2012 3:34 AM, "cole santos" <<a href="mailto:cksantos85@gmail.com">cksantos85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
OMG, we are now witnessing the beginning of the next era of<br>
colonization. China just put the first post office into orbit....<br>
Everyone is going for the moon. Chang Diaz has a NERVA rocket. Many in<br>
the industry want us to formally colonize the moon. The space treaty<br>
will be toast in 10 years. Obama is building asteroid ships. Now this<br>
asteroid mining. These guys need a huge nickel carbonyl process plant.<br>
One asteroid could build several giant habitats. Inflate a giant<br>
rubber sphere with tiny ss heating elements in the surface and fill it<br>
with nickel carbonyl and boron. Nickel boron deposits and you have a<br>
giant metallic habitat with properties close to steel. That is how we<br>
will build O'Neil sized habitats on the cheap. Giant heated rubber<br>
molds. Nickel carbonyl can be produced by passing carbon monoxide over<br>
crushed asteroid material. Iron can also be removed by this process.<br>
Left overs are rare earths.....The first asteroid chunks could be sold<br>
as is to NASA, ESA, ect for research. Unless they go carbonaceous<br>
first and sell fuel and water to LEO.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Máté Ravasz <<a href="mailto:ravaszmeister@gmail.com">ravaszmeister@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Don't forget that apart from techgurus, Peter Diamandis (CEO or founder of<br>
> at least a dozen space firms), Tom Jones (not that one but still an<br>
> astronaut), And a few veteran NASA guys are also in there. Sounds fun!<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 19 April 2012 11:13, Jerry Isdale <<a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com">isdale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> "On Tuesday, a new company called Planetary Resources will announce its<br>
>> existence at the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery at The Museum of Flight in<br>
>> Seattle. It's not clear what the firm does, but its roster of backers<br>
>> incudes Google cofounders Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, filmmaker James<br>
>> Cameron, former Microsoftie (and space philanthropist) Charles Simonyi, and<br>
>> Ross Perot Jr., son of the former presidential candidate."<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/?ref=rss" target="_blank">http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/?ref=rss</a><br>
>><br>
>> Hmm, maybe these folks will drop a small ($1mil) donation to help ensure a<br>
>> well trained workforce<br>
>><br>
>> Jerry Isdale<br>
>> <a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com">isdale@gmail.com</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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