[SpaceProgram] MIT Tech review: Planetary Resources -- a New Asteroid Mining Operation?

[Huei Ming Tan]

Whoa, chill.

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!

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On Apr 20, 2012 3:34 AM, "cole santos" <cksantos85 at gmail.com> wrote:

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