The Final Frontier

In the 1960’s, Larry Niven wrote a set of science fiction novels focused on a ‘Belter’ civilization of asteroid miners that developed their own separate society free of the pollution and overcrowding of Earth, who they sold valuable minerals to.

James Cameron and the Google guys want to build it:

Details have been emerging of the plan by billionaire entrepreneurs to mine asteroids for their resources.

The multi-million-dollar plan would use robotic spacecraft to squeeze chemical components of fuel and minerals such as platinum and gold out of the rocks.

The founders include film director and explorer James Cameron as well as Google’s chief executive Larry Page and its executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

They even aim to create a fuel depot in space by 2020.

BBC

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