Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
By now, you should have heard a company called "Planetary Resources" is going to mine Near Earth Asteroids for their precious metals like platinum and water. I am really excited about this news. It is about time, I can drink my coffee looking at the Blue Marble! One asteriod may contain more platinum that has been mined in all of history.
Watch the Planetary Resources press conference here, which was held on April 24, 2012 at Charles Simonyi Space Gallery.
Also Planetary Resources has released a video about the company and what they will be doing,
The company was founded by space visionary Peter H. Diamandis, M.D. and leading commercial space entrepreneur Eric Anderson, and is supported by an impressive investor and advisor group, including Google's Larry Page & Eric Schmidt, Ph.D.; film maker & explorer James Cameron; Chairman of Intentional Software Corporation and Microsoft's former Chief Software Architect Charles Simonyi, Ph.D.; Founder of Sherpalo and Google Board of Directors founding member K. Ram Shriram; and Chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group Ross Perot, Jr.
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