There's a webcast on Tuesday.   I'd watch.

Carl


On 4/21/12 9:11 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
This is so Star Trek:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577356190967904210.html
As /. said: http://goo.gl/DNDzV

    "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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