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 montana278
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Posted: 4/24/2012 1:16:29 PM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/24/companies-plan-to-mine-precious-metals-in-space/?hpt=hp_t2 |
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StewartTR
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Posted: 4/25/2012 9:56:50 AM
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montana278
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Posted: 4/25/2012 1:51:06 PM
Thanks Stewart. Another article if anyone is interested.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2112996,00.html?hpt=hp_t3 |
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Slavac
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Posted: 4/26/2012 6:39:08 PM
Originally Posted By montana278: As a Mining Engineer, I can get down with this. Although I do think their timeline is a bit off, perhaps to the point of being laughable. http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/24/companies-plan-to-mine-precious-metals-in-space/?hpt=hp_t2 The timeline is pretty smart when you think about it. Compare it to the moon race. We had a semi firm deadline and had to come up with the technology to make this deadline ricky tick. Same principle applies here. Heck if we had the funding and a deadline of 2025, we could have a colony on the moon and or mars by then. |
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