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2012.04.24

Breaking: Private company does indeed plan to mine asteroids… and I think they can do it | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Planetary Resources, Inc. is not your average startup: its mission is to investigate and eventually mine asteroids in space!

via blogs.discovermagazine.com

This is so cool so cool so cool!

A team that can pull it off, a plan that can work (or be adjusted on the fly to work), and money to do it.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

That's my technical breakdown of the post, at any rate. Carry on.

Posted by Andrew Boardman on 2012.04.24 at 23:28 in Science | Permalink

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