https://techcitement.com get excited Tue, 01 May 2012 16:06:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://techcitement.com/entertainment/techfiction-the-dangers-of-space-mining/ https://techcitement.com/entertainment/techfiction-the-dangers-of-space-mining/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:00:50 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=10690

Tuesday’s announcement by startup Planetary Resources that they have plans to start a privatized asteroid mining operation seems the stuff of science fiction made reality. This is literally a plot point in countless science fiction books and movies, usually to get the protagonists in an out of the way location so all kinds of space chaos can break […]]]> https://techcitement.com/entertainment/techfiction-the-dangers-of-space-mining/feed/ 4 https://techcitement.com/culture/planetary-resources-miners-in-space/ https://techcitement.com/culture/planetary-resources-miners-in-space/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:00:35 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=10639

What do director James Cameron, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page (executive chairmen of Google, respectively), and Ross Perot Jr. have in common? They’re all going into the space mining business, backing the startup company Planetary Resources. Planetary Resources hopes to have a private spacecraft operational in less than two years, using it to mine for […]]]> https://techcitement.com/culture/planetary-resources-miners-in-space/feed/ 4