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Planetary Resources - Mining Asteroids In Real Life
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Kodemunkey
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-05-27 19:29:15 UTC
Hello all, i thought you might like to know about a real life corporation which aims to do what we do in EVE on a daily basis.

I'm one of the social media volunteers, whose job it is to spread the news far and wide. There were 40,000 applicants and i was one of a group of 400 chosen.

Anyway, this is their first press release, the first of many over the next decade at least.

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Planetary Resources Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2013
*** Media Alert *** Media Alert *** Media Alert ***
Planetary Resources Opening the Space Frontier to All

WHAT: Planetary Resources’ team of engineers who have designed, built and operated spacecraft throughout the Solar System, including all of the recent U.S. Mars landers and rovers, are now developing the most advanced space technology ever and will make it publicly accessible. A diverse group of supporters, including Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson, actor Seth Green, Star Trek’s Brent Spiner (Data) and Rob Picardo (The Doctor), Bill Nye the Science Guy, futurist Jason Silva, and MIT astrophysicist Dr. Sara Seager, have joined forces with Planetary Resources to make access to space widely available for exploration and research.

On May 29 at 10:00 a.m. PDT in Seattle, and also streaming live, please join Planetary Resources’ Peter Diamandis, Eric Anderson and Chris Lewicki, as they, along with vlogger Hank Green, announce an unprecedented project that will change the way humanity explores the cosmos. Program Highlights:

Gives students, teachers and the public access to the most innovative space observation technology ever built

– This technology would have cost US$100M+ to build and launch less than a decade ago; and today, it will be controlled by students around the world to explore the cosmos.Offers the opportunity for the public to directly participate in cutting-edge citizen science and discovery

– Delivers a resource to thousands of institutions and researchers in need of greater access to space to further their work and rate of scientific discovery.
Invites the public to participate in Planetary Resources’ asteroid mining mission – Anyone with an interest in space can play a role in opening up the Solar System for human activity.

WHEN: Wed., May 29, 2013 10:00 a.m. PDT WHO:
Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc.
Eric Anderson, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc.
Chris Lewicki, President & Chief Engineer, Planetary Resources, Inc.
Hank Green, Internet personality, VlogBrothers
WHERE: Great Gallery at The Museum of Flight 9404 East Marginal Way South Seattle, WA 98108 Event will also be streamed online.

RSVP: Media are invited to attend in-person or view the live stream. Live stream details for the press will be provided upon request. CONTACT: Stacey Tearne
stearne@planetaryresources.com +1 202-256-7917 ADDITIONAL EVENT: Later in the day at 3:30 p.m. PDT an additional live streaming event will occur at the Museum of Flight with Brent Spiner, Hank Green, Chris Lewicki and other Planetary Resources members. This event will be in group discussion format talking about the announcements from earlier in the day. We invite the press and the public both in person and via live stream to attend this event, engage and ask questions. The live stream for this event will be accessible from the following URL.
http://www.planetaryresources.com/livestream/

The above URL will allow access to both events during the day, however all media outlets are required to RSVP with Stacey Tearne for a direct access press link for submitting questions during the morning event. About Planetary Resources: Planetary Resources, Inc. was founded in 2009 by Eric Anderson and Dr. Peter H. Diamandis. Their vision is to establish a new paradigm for resource utilization that will bring the Solar System within humanity’s economic sphere of influence. The company will conduct low-cost robotic space exploration beginning with the Arkyd Series of space missions that will identify the most commercially viable near-Earth asteroids. These initial missions will assist the company in enabling the retrieval of raw materials from these select asteroids, including water, precious metals and more.

Planetary Resources is financed by industry-launching visionaries, three of whom include Google’s CEO Larry Page & Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt; and Ross Perot, Jr., Chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group; who are committed to expanding the world’s resource base so humanity can continue to grow and prosper for centuries to come. Some of the company’s partners and advisors include the Bechtel Corporation; film maker and explorer James Cameron; former Chief of Staff, United States Air Force General T. Michael Moseley (Ret.); and Sara Seager, Ph.D., Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at MIT. For more information, please visit www.planetaryresources.com.

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Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#2 - 2013-05-27 19:35:44 UTC
*Squee* Big smile

This is the cutting edge, and hopefully will get the economy growing again, the Internet powered the last boom, hopefully this could fuel the next one.

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Kodemunkey
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-05-27 19:38:53 UTC
Let's hope so, hopefully they bring back something more than just plain old Trit Lol
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#4 - 2013-05-27 23:45:56 UTC
what kind of schooling does it take to be officially recognized as a "futurist?" Big smile
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#5 - 2013-05-27 23:52:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Kirjava
Probably a mix of Engineering and Economics. It breaks down after you start mining Asteroids though, the value of precious metals change so radically due to the high abundance, it would take only one corporation going Standard Oil on the industry to have gold at $10/ounce.

Same with Energy, start building those Solar Arrays and the Oil economy would be dead within a few years, and that's likely the first application of mining stuff up there in the first place.

For the record I pulled that $10 value out of my arse, its in much greater abundance up there and we have no idea what the legal construct would be. I put my money on the UN licencing operations and a tax via the member states.

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Darksteel Rifter
Masters of Disasters
#6 - 2013-05-28 00:48:30 UTC
I'd do that.
Fernando MRuiz
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-05-28 02:15:55 UTC
They're finally getting it off the ground?!

Man. Economic impact be damned, this is a major step forward!

"One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering." - Mme. Germaine de Staël
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#8 - 2013-05-28 08:12:22 UTC
Heres hoping, the future is happening now. All those dreams of the 60's that were probably nearly a century ahead of their time, but necessary to get us to here today. A self perpetuating space programme could power our tech base for a long time in interesting directions, especially with medicine. The differences in insulin crystals formed in a 0g environment in comparison to those on Earth are staggering.

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Kodemunkey
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-05-28 13:33:49 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
Heres hoping, the future is happening now. All those dreams of the 60's that were probably nearly a century ahead of their time, but necessary to get us to here today. A self perpetuating space programme could power our tech base for a long time in interesting directions, especially with medicine. The differences in insulin crystals formed in a 0g environment in comparison to those on Earth are staggering.


Richard Branson is on board with this project, and they plan to use a version of his sub orbital flight aircraft to launch their probes.
Adela Talvanen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-05-28 18:31:21 UTC
Kodemunkey wrote:
Kirjava wrote:
Heres hoping, the future is happening now. All those dreams of the 60's that were probably nearly a century ahead of their time, but necessary to get us to here today. A self perpetuating space programme could power our tech base for a long time in interesting directions, especially with medicine. The differences in insulin crystals formed in a 0g environment in comparison to those on Earth are staggering.


Richard Branson is on board with this project, and they plan to use a version of his sub orbital flight aircraft to launch their probes.


Lord help it.
Comprachicos Pendulum
Astrum Diligentia
#11 - 2013-06-03 14:45:28 UTC
I was one of the 40,000 not chosen. I thought I was pretty clever answering the naming of the crash test dummy question, too. (Brad Roberts, because the name is deeper than the voice)
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#12 - 2013-06-03 14:46:17 UTC
Kodemunkey wrote:
Kirjava wrote:
Heres hoping, the future is happening now. All those dreams of the 60's that were probably nearly a century ahead of their time, but necessary to get us to here today. A self perpetuating space programme could power our tech base for a long time in interesting directions, especially with medicine. The differences in insulin crystals formed in a 0g environment in comparison to those on Earth are staggering.


Richard Branson is on board with this project, and they plan to use a version of his sub orbital flight aircraft to launch their probes.

We Third British Empire in Space Now? Pirate

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Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#13 - 2013-06-03 14:47:24 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
Kodemunkey wrote:
Kirjava wrote:
Heres hoping, the future is happening now. All those dreams of the 60's that were probably nearly a century ahead of their time, but necessary to get us to here today. A self perpetuating space programme could power our tech base for a long time in interesting directions, especially with medicine. The differences in insulin crystals formed in a 0g environment in comparison to those on Earth are staggering.


Richard Branson is on board with this project, and they plan to use a version of his sub orbital flight aircraft to launch their probes.

We Third British Empire in Space Now? Pirate



Just don't let your space colonies rebell.

-k8

My Fanclub
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#14 - 2013-06-03 14:49:59 UTC
Commissar Kate wrote:
Kirjava wrote:
Kodemunkey wrote:
Kirjava wrote:
Heres hoping, the future is happening now. All those dreams of the 60's that were probably nearly a century ahead of their time, but necessary to get us to here today. A self perpetuating space programme could power our tech base for a long time in interesting directions, especially with medicine. The differences in insulin crystals formed in a 0g environment in comparison to those on Earth are staggering.


Richard Branson is on board with this project, and they plan to use a version of his sub orbital flight aircraft to launch their probes.

We Third British Empire in Space Now? Pirate



Just don't let your space colonies rebell.

We learned that from the first one, second one was much more successful Big smile

But seriously space colonies in future would probably be incorporated components of the terrestrial nations if they want to keep them, ie US states on the Moon, Mars ect, or EU states ect.

OR JUST ONE MASSIVE PINK SOLAR SYSTEM TwistedPirateEvil

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Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#15 - 2013-06-03 14:52:06 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
Commissar Kate wrote:
Kirjava wrote:
Kodemunkey wrote:
Kirjava wrote:
Heres hoping, the future is happening now. All those dreams of the 60's that were probably nearly a century ahead of their time, but necessary to get us to here today. A self perpetuating space programme could power our tech base for a long time in interesting directions, especially with medicine. The differences in insulin crystals formed in a 0g environment in comparison to those on Earth are staggering.


Richard Branson is on board with this project, and they plan to use a version of his sub orbital flight aircraft to launch their probes.

We Third British Empire in Space Now? Pirate



Just don't let your space colonies rebell.

We learned that from the first one, second one was much more successful Big smile

But seriously space colonies in future would probably be incorporated components of the terrestrial nations if they want to keep them, ie US states on the Moon, Mars ect, or EU states ect.

OR JUST ONE MASSIVE PINK SOLAR SYSTEM TwistedPirateEvil



I'v always thought it would be corporations that would have the colonies...... or maybe I play too much EvE Roll

-k8

My Fanclub
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#16 - 2013-06-03 14:57:39 UTC
I imagine colonies being owned by corporations (technically the 13 original US states are legal corporations under British Law that became autonomous and owned by their mandated electorate, weird eh?) but that the people being a component of UN Nation States. However the corporations need to sell their merchandise, and they means some sort of legally based arrangement, likely ending with say Virgins Colonies being considered Oversees Territories of the UK.

Nations have loyalty, and militaries to back up resource claims. Soon as someone starts drilling a rock, the defence contractors will be putting the fist Space Warships onto the plans, and I don't think that it will be the corporations that are mining that will be owning those ships first.

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