Asteroid Mining? About Time
Awhile back I wrote about the logistical challenge and potential profits of mining the moon. It’s nice to learn the idea has fallen on much more fertile ground. Google’s founders have teamed up with James Cameron and a bunch of other liberal billionaires to form a mining company with plans to mine asteroids.
Freakin’ cool.
Space enthusiasts have struggled to get their bearings after the demise of the Apollo program and the disappointment of the shuttle program. They’ve had to content themselves with government funded missions with increasing costs and decreasing utility as taxpayers have demanded Apollo-like bang for pennies of what the program costs.
It’s well past time the exploration of space became the prerogative of private enterprise, and if it takes flaming liberals like Sergey Brin, Larry Page and James Cameron to do it, so be it.
NavyOne:
Freakin’ cool indeed. I look forward to hearing more. . .
22 April 2012, 10:37 am