Asteroid Mining

Jason Keisling | From the January 2016 issue

This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Asteroid Mining."

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Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

11,000 near-Earth asteroids have been identified.

All of which have been declared national space parks by the Obama Administration. Take that, you would-be space profiteers. You could find an alternate fuel source up there, for all we know. We can't have that. Solar and wind power forever!
Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

Companies are targeting carbonaceous chondrite asteroids...

They should target him. We all should. He lost trust after lying on-air about the Tet Offensive.
1. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair 10 years ago
  
  +1 Huntley +1 Brinkley
Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

Can we discuss the simple fact that, in addition to space water, these space miners are likely to bring back all kinds of weird and pissed off alien space microbes that will thaw out and force Kurt Russell to tie us all to chairs. And don't even get me started about the platinum-based space beings who will totally freak out when we start mining their young.

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