James Cameron, Google Founder Back Space-Mining Venture - WSJ.com
Posted by
Owen Densmore on
Apr 22, 2012; 3:11am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/James-Cameron-Google-Founder-Back-Space-Mining-Venture-WSJ-com-tp7488490.html
This is so Star Trek:
"A team including Larry Page, Ram Shriram and Eric Schmidt of Google, director James Cameron, Charles Simonyi (Microsoft executive and astronaut), Ross Perot Jr. (son of Ross Perot), Chris Lewicki (NASA Mars mission manager), and Peter Diamandis (X-Prize) have formed a new company called Planetary Resources, and are expected to announce plans on April 24th to mine asteroids. A study by NASA released April 2nd claims a robotic mission could capture a 500 ton asteroid and bring it to orbit the moon for $2.6 billion. The additional cost to mine the asteroid and return the ores to Earth would make profit unlikely even if the asteriod was 20% gold."
-- Owen
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