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Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons
kkleiner writes "Planetary Resources last year boldly claimed that they would build a futuristic business out of mining space asteroids. To that end, the firm recently completed the Arkyd-100 satellite prototype. The satellite will use its telescope to look for suitable near-Earth asteroids from low-Earth orbit. Later expeditions will rocket out to prospective real estate, do spectral analysis, and if the asteroid contains valuable resources, lay claim with a beacon."
So I know whose asteroid crashed into my house.
Just because you choose space as the place to do something shitty doesn't mean you won't have to answer for it here.
Mighty big talk from someone sitting at the bottom of a gravity well.
All they need to do is lick each one. Any four-year-old knows that.
Probably not since there wasn't a person called Merriam Webster name is from the Merriam publishing company's purchase of the Webster dictionary publishing license after the death of Daniel Webster.
A Webster, yes. Two different Merriams, yes. A Merriam Webster, no.
I thought corporations were people. Can't they roll over in their grave, too?
How about dropping a 1,000,000 tonne rock on the UN building. Orbital bombardment is ten tenths of the law.