Film & TV Publicity for the next Avatar film?

[Kobe]

What do you think? I read this article while checking my email. Seems a bit too...ahem...'futuristic' to me

A newly unveiled company with some high-profile backers — including filmmaker James Cameron and Google co-founder Larry Page — has announced plans to mine near-Earth asteroids for resources such as precious metals and water.
Planetary Resources, Inc. intends to sell these materials, generating a healthy profit for itself. But it also aims to advance humanity's exploration and exploitation of space, with resource extraction serving as an anchor industry that helps our species spread throughout the solar system.

 

[Casey]

It's real. Lots of asteroids come nearby to the Earth every year. It's only logical to mine them for minerals.

 

[Pittsey]

It's standard. To further space exploration, we need to get the private sector driving the technology. The only way that will happen is if there is profit to be made. Mining is an easy way to make space travel worthwhile from a cost perspective.

 

[Casey]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2971142/planetary-resources-space-robotics-mining-exploration

 

[Da_Funk]

I can't tell if you guys are serious but mining asteriods is so far away that, barring some kind've technological revolution that jumps us forward 100 years, none of us will live to see it.

 

[Pittsey]

100 years is a very short period of time in Space exploration terms. And mining potential is the number 1 reason, currently, that private firms are interested in building "spacecraft". Once the technology is in the "go" stage, they estimate $50Billion of resources per Asteroid.

 

[Kobe]

Scroll through the sites of Planetary Resources Inc & the guys that streamed their press conference today.

 

[ARon]

I want to make a Starcraft joke