New Asteroid Mining Company

[gremlin]

looks like we can not mine the earth, mite as well hit up space.

http://gizmodo.com/5904081/new-asteroid ... ds-economy

New Asteroid Mining Company May Solve World’s Economic Problems

This Tuesday, a group of billionaires and former NASA scientists will announce Planetary Resources Inc., the first asteroid mining company in history. They claim they will "add trillions of dollars to the global GDP" and "help ensure humanity's prosperity."

The group of investors and scientists on board this enterprise is impressive:

[Hoser John]

Well now the old adage--What is a miner?--A liar with a hole in the ground ...will have to be updated to blue sky and bs---DREDGE THE EARTH FIRST------John

[gremlin]

wonder if the greens would catch on if we start building space ships.

[russau]

maybe if we give them a free ride in that ship we could get rid of a lot of them!

[Hoser John]

Give each one a penny and the lawyers will kill themselves trying to get it--yaaaaa a 2 fer one deal--sounds great to me-John

[russau]

John if that were true, id chip in a bag of pennies!