Pertambangan Asteroid? mungkin bisa dapat Uranium, atau mineral lainnya yang susah didapatkan di dalam bumi,
fbs Tech Billionaires Unveil Asteroid Mining Plans http://us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=fam9o8309hht9 SkyNews HD 2:31am UK, Tuesday April 24, 2012 Google bosses and Avatar director James Cameron have teamed up to form a company that will mine natural resources from asteroids. Details of the ambitious project will be unveiled later including other high-profile backers who will be working alongside the likes of Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. According to a recent press release, the fledgling company, called Planetary Resources, will combine the sectors of "space exploration and natural resources" in a venture that could add "trillions of dollars to the global GDP". "This innovative start-up will create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources'," the press release added. Planetary Resource was co-founded by Eric Anderson, a former Nasa Mars mission manager, and Peter Diamandis, the commercial space entrepreneur behind the X-Prize, a competition that offered $10m (£6.2m) to a group that launched a re-useable manned spacecraft. Other notable investors include Charles Simonyi, a former top executive at Microsoft and K Ram Shriram, a Google director. The venture will be the latest foray into the far-flung for Cameron, who dived last month in a mini-submarine to the deepest spot in the Mariana Trench. The plot of his 2009 science fiction blockbuster film Avatar concerned resource mining on alien planets.
