Company to Settle and Mine Mars

Rutgersen writes "Wired is reporting that a new startup is planning to colonize and mine Mars by 2025. From the article: 'The new company, 4Frontiers, plans to mine Mars for building materials and energy sources, and export the planet's mineral wealth to forthcoming space stations on the moon and elsewhere.'"

Comments

Profit?

[mrshoe]

1. Fly to Mars
2. Collect some rocks
3. ??
4. Profit

Fool proof.

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[crazyphilman]

The CrazyPhilman Asteroid Mining Method:

Step 1: Select an asteroid. For example, that giant slab of solid iron over there, the one that's like a mile wide.

Step 2: Put rocket engines on one side, and a little house on the other. Move into the little house with a porno babe.

Step 3: Use the house's pilot station to fire the engines up and set a course for earth.

Step 4: Fuck the porno chick for several months, eating pop tarts and drinking Jolt cola.

Step 5: While in Earth Orbit, aim the asteroid at the parcel of land you bought out in the middle of New Jersey. You might think New Jerseyans would get miffed about this, but they're used to environmental destruction. Nobody will mind.

Step 6: While the asteroid enters the atmosphere, jump in your escape vehicle (it's in the little house's garage) and get out of there! Try and come down someplace nice, like Hawaii. Bone the porno chick some more. Ahhhh... Porno chicks RULE.

Step 7: Rent a full-size pickup truck and drive out to your New Jersey property with the porno chick and some tools, and gather up your meteorite for sale and distribution! It shouldn't be TOO hard to break it up and sell it... Wait, it's several megatons, you might need a box van.

Step 8: Repeat annually! Profit!