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Mining Asteroids@Home

Posted by Hemos on from the pulled-down-from-space dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Like the lively discussion on mediation strategies for exterminating asteroids, a six-person expert panel is debating today whether humans exist because of big collisions or in spite of them. Interestingly Mexico's oil (and most of the rest of the world's resources) seem to have arisen from later mining of these byproducts: the luck of geography or the price at the pump for dead dinosaurs."

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  1. Lets not rock the boat by EMiniShark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Regardless of whether we exist because of asteroid collisions, I'd rather not give space the chance to reinvent the planet again :)

  2. Humans Would Never Have Survived Without Asteroids by Doctor+Sbaitso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Asteroids, without a doubt, helped our species survive. What else would have filled the immense void in the arcade hall in the years between Pong and Pac-Man?

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  3. Re:Billions of factors... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If you'd finished reading the article, most of them disagree with the fact that spieces died out "most likely, as a result of large impacts."
    First of all, in contradiction to Benny Peiser's remarks, Peter Ward has presented data showing that while it is true that the majority of species that have ever existed are now extinct, only a minority of those, a few percent in fact, were victims of mass extinctions. Instead, most extinct species have come to an end at some random time between mass extinctions.
  4. Make Material Fast! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life!

    All you have to do is send an asteroid to the planet at the top of the list. Then remove that planet from the list, move the rest up one space and add your planet to the bottom of the list. Pass this list around by radio transmissions to other solar systems. Eventually your planet will reach the top of the list, and you'll have more asteroids than you know what to do with!

    This really works. It is NOT a SCAM!