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Asteroid mining: disaster movie, or the shape of things to come?

When this was first considered in 1969 by Gerard K. O'Neill there was a willingness to consider the benefits of an extended space infrastructure. The Reactionaries began to chip away at the dream citing cost versus first US Poverty and then Cost versus Global Poverty. These same parties ignored the insights gained from Earth Observation satellites and Deep Space Probes. The former resulting in the Gaia Hypothesis and the latter revealing the stark warning of Nuclear Winter. Data on asteroid minimg programmes showed the programme originally designed to move power generationh of planet, would be in profit after 24 years. Since then we have been thwarted in our efforts to manage planetary resources and truly make a sustainable difference to earths citizens. Politics both nationally and Internationally has been hampered by resource based conflicts and an inability to think three dimensionally to generate efficient solutions. We have unlimited Resources located in and on the solar system. We have opportunity to generate varied solutions and to gain new percpectives on Earths problems and systems. Yet we cannot or will not think of future generations preferring the comfort of solutions and politics of the past .

25 Apr 2012

9:09 pm