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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 27/04/2012 22:24:47 Reply \| Quote From the Beeb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17827347 Details have been emerging of the plan by billionaire entrepreneurs to mine asteroids for their resources. The multi-million-dollar plan would use robotic spacecraft to squeeze chemical components of fuel and minerals such as platinum and gold out of the rocks. The founders include film director and explorer James Cameron as well as Google's chief executive Larry Page and its executive chairman Eric Schmidt. I particularly liked: Peter Diamandis wrote: Since my early teenage years, I’ve wanted to be an asteroid miner. Haven't we all -- Half the lies you tell ain't true IP: 217.44.16.248
Strangely Brown Joined: 28/01/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 28/04/2012 00:29:16 Reply \| Quote Won't need the boats or SRT for exploring these, not without gravity. -- The light at the end of the tunnel is just another mine explorer. IP: 81.132.5.179
Ty Gwyn Joined: 30/10/2009 Location: Lampeter View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 28/04/2012 00:43:27 Reply \| Quote Wont the haulage costs kill the project? IP: 81.158.20.172
NewStuff Joined: 26/07/2010 Location: NE Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 28/04/2012 07:00:37 Reply \| Quote I think the idea is to pull the whole thing back, and extract here as normal. While I'd love to see it work, I doubt it'll happen in my lifetime. -- In your mines, Taking your pictures... IP: 109.224.135.253
staffordshirechina Joined: 15/11/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 28/04/2012 07:17:09 Reply \| Quote As a mining engineer, I have always understood it is my God given right to trash the planet. Now I can trash someone else's too....... IP: 95.144.208.80
JohnnearCfon Joined: 22/12/2005 Location: Sir Caernarfon View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 28/04/2012 13:13:17 Reply \| Quote This was mentioned on Have I got News For You last night. You can imagine the fun they had with it! IP: 78.150.131.64
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 28/04/2012 17:52:38 Reply \| Quote Asteroids...? I had mine removed on the NHS -- 'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear' IP: 86.150.139.157
Rossony Joined: 14/07/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 29/04/2012 01:37:26 Reply \| Quote It will be interesting to know who regulates mining of asteroids and who is to establish the mining laws of outer space. Will it be the US, UK, China, New Zealand, Bosnia, or....? -- If it cannot be grown, it has to be mined. IP: 70.66.69.88
toadstone Joined: 10/09/2007 Location: Father's Dwelling, Big Low View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Asteroid mining Posted: 29/04/2012 08:14:49 Reply \| Quote Rossony wrote: It will be interesting to know who regulates mining of asteroids and who is to establish the mining laws of outer space. Will it be the US, UK, China, New Zealand, Bosnia, or....? IP: 86.150.172.214 Edited: 29/04/2012 08:21:15 by toadstone

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