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New NASA Mission to Help Us Learn How to Mine Asteroids

Posted August 12, 2013 9:47 AM

From Space News From SpaceDaily.Com:

Over the last hundred years, the human population has exploded from about 1.5 billion to more than seven billion, driving an ever-increasing demand for resources. To satisfy civilization's appetite, communities have expanded recycling efforts while mine operators must explore forbidding frontiers to seek out new deposits, opening mines miles underground or even at the bottom of the ocean.

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Re: New NASA Mission to Help Us Learn How to Mine Asteroids

08/13/2013 5:43 AM

Well, it's an alternative to explosion suppression....

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