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

joking about films apart I think the idea is great as far as it will drum up new enthusiasm, potential employment and is a massive scope for finding out more about our less local surroundings. Thinking a bit more down to earth, (which the 'rich' probably arent) is it really a viable and worthwhile effort in this current stage of our technological evolution? How much does it cost to send a rocket into space? How much resource/ money/ manpower? And they want to send a whole mining community/communities? Heavy machinery etc etc etc. Space flight isnt cheap and the technology to make it so isnt here yet, so i suggest we should spend the money on trying to solve earth's energy worries so we have chance to evolve as an engineering community for long enough to make space dreams more plausible. But then its not our money.

1 May 2012

2:32 pm