Mine Asteroids NOT Mountains

05/06/2018

Asteroid mining comes with built-in risks, but it’s nothing a little international agreement couldn’t anticipate...

Platinum-group metals in space may serve the same role as oil has on Earth, threatening to extend geopolitical struggles into astropolitical…

02/24/2018

Forget cryptocurrency — the next big “gold rush” isn’t even on Earth. Physicist Michio Kaku, writing in his new book “The Future of Humanity” (Doubleday), believes a bonanza is coming from mining a…

02/20/2018

The potential value of the minerals in these asteroids is staggering.

11/02/2017

There's electric cars in them asteroids, along with anything else a rapidly expanding technological civilization might care to invent.

Yesterday, we reported on an alarming development for the future of electric cars: we may not have enough of the crucial minerals needed for their batteries to meet the expected demand. Supplies of nickel and cobalt are going to be needed in far larger quantities than ever before, and it’s looking l...

09/30/2017

We are on the verge of something incredible! Ever heard of TNSTAAFL? Asteroids are the real thing. One chondrite could pay for hundreds of BFRs.

The SpaceX CEO's latest inspiration could use some reining in.

11/14/2011

The sun's abundant energy, if harvested in space, could provide a cost-effective way to meet global power needs in as little as 30 years with seed money from governments, according to a study by an international scientific group.

11/02/2011

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/11/video-diy-airship-sets-altitude-record/

A group of volunteers has its own idea for how to join the private space race - airships. Last month they sent an unmanned powered airship t...

10/31/2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/post/asteroid-flyby-prepare-to-duck/2011/10/31/gIQA1llmZM_blog.html

Watch out! There'll be a near-earth flyby soon! What a warning shot!

10/28/2011

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/stephenson-innovation-starvation/all/1

My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space. Some of my earliest memo...

10/06/2011

http://www.b612foundation.org/b612/

The B612 is a non-profit organization founded by a group of astronauts and scientists whose goal is to predict and prevent catastrophic asteroid impacts on Earth. B612 aims to find potentially threatening asteroids, track their trajectories, and to demonstrate the technology to alter the orbit of an...

10/06/2011

"We have the technology to capture into Earth orbit any medium to small asteroid that passes sufficiently close to the Earth at a relatively low velocity, as Apophis will do on Friday, April 13th, 2029.

We can spend a few billion, and yield a resource worth perhaps a trillion dollars: 25 million TONS of oxygen, iron, silicon, aluminum, water, carbon, and other ores, conveniently located in Earth orbit. Resources which can be used to create solar power satellites without having to boost all that mass from the surface of the Earth. Resources that can be used to lower the cost of space exploration ten-fold. Resources that can be used to build permanent self-sustaining habitats in space..."