News - Technology billionaires back asteroid mining project

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Google's Eric Schmidt teams up with director, James Cameron in ambitious project.

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[Arthran]

Its about time! ONWARDS TO SPACE!

On a serious note, its about time we as a species got back on track and started pushing onwards towards the stars and stopped languishing on this. The benefit to humanity is far too great

[mark22]

Agreed this is far too important to ignore and it could easily be argued that funding should be put to this before supposed agw etc.

[Scribe]

Its about time! ONWARDS TO SPACE!

On a serious note, its about time we as a species got back on track and started pushing onwards towards the stars and stopped languishing on this. The benefit to humanity is far too great

I think it's about time mankind got back on track with the bigger picture in general.

[Fraz]

If I was a billionaire, this is exactly the kind of stuff I'd be doing. Nice!

[J3FFW1SH]

If I was a billionaire, this is exactly the kind of stuff I'd be doing. Nice!

Same, I would definitely back a project like this - not for the potential monetary gains but the improvement of mankind.

[flearider]

never forget it's about the money ...greed will push men to do anything ..and once they have the "rare materials" it will be about the control ..

we are not ready as a species on the whole to think about "The benefit to humanity"

[scaryjim]

Ahha, at last! Mining Lasers for my Mark III Cobra

[Funkstar]

I thought James Cameron was all about the deep sea exploration?

[funke_munke]

Exactly. You could create such abundance of a resource that it would be almost value-less and almost free to all if the process was completely automated if you so wished, after a few years of R&D. Shame all they talk about is GDP! Nonsense!

[Boris]

Ahha, at last! Mining Lasers for my Mark III Cobra

Forget mining, start killing Thargoids like the rest of us!
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[b0redom]

Is it only me that sees the irony of a story about a bunch of Manic Miners coming out on the 30th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum?

[aidanjt]

We don't need space iron or whatever minerals they have in mind, we need serious investment in energy. When we solve the energy problem we can practically build whatever we want from the subatomic, up. Or at least blow up all the space rocks we can get our hands on so we can start polluting our outer space with asteroid debris just like we polluted our atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

[mark22]

We don't need space iron or whatever minerals they have in mind, we need serious investment in energy. When we solve the energy problem we can practically build whatever we want from the subatomic, up. Or at least blow up all the space rocks we can get our hands on so we can start polluting our outer space with asteroid debris just like we polluted our atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

Wow bought into the agw thing bad, put it simply billions of people will die of hunger way before any fossil fuel issues rise up. Also space exploration will inevitably lead to cheaper energy eventually. You seem a bit idealogical which really isn't needed for such important matters

[TeePee]

One accidental 'dump truck' load of space rocks added to low earth orbit and a case of Kessler Syndrome will end space travel.

[mark22]

Well there's a fine reason to never do anything that might forward the human whatever.