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Asteroid Resources Could Make Science Fiction Dreams and Nightmares a Reality

Posted by samzenpus on from the best-and-worst dept.

MarkWhittington writes "With two private companies, Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, proposing to set up asteroid mining, the prospect of accessing limitless wealth beyond the Earth has caused a bit of media speculation about what that could mean. The question arises, could asteroid resources be used to create the greatest dreams — and perhaps the worst nightmares — of science fiction?"

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  1. Re:We have no clue by kiosjahu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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