Website Asteroid Mining Mission Revealed by Planetary Resources, Inc.

Planetary Resources' mission is to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of cost-effective exploration technologies, the company is poised to initiate prospecting missions targeting resource-rich asteroids that are easily accessible.

Resource extraction from asteroids will deliver multiple benefits to humanity and could be valued at billions of dollars annually. The effort will tap into the high concentration of precious metals found on asteroids and provide a sustainable supply to the ever-growing population on Earth.

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.

Visit www.planetaryresources.com for more information.

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[Daniel Ohana]

We should be mining the asteroids, the moon, and colonizing Mars. Lets get it rolling people! :-)

[ISMOPANAMA]

Resources Development Administration (RDA)

; )

[Oliver W]

Thank you for your kind words, you also seem intelligent. However, there is a logical fallacy: When seeing something that you don't understand you immediately assume it must have been created. I could just as easily say: Nobody saw those amino acids form together, so therefore it must have been the dancing pixies who sprinkled fairy dust. I am not trying to be offensive here, but this is how I think of it. Why would a creator start a process of evolution rather than create humans immediately?

[TeamELEMENT115]

First off, nice detailed response, finally educated people. What you have discussed is merely a prediction, even if it were true basic protein structures consist of amino acids, these are live cells completely different from atoms. no matter what the conditions may be there is no proof that non living atoms can create even the smallest life forms. This debate will obviously fall into the big bang theory: something must have created it therefore there is a creator.

[Oliver W]

We know why there is life, it began in the hot temperatures of the early earth 3 or so billion years ago. Basic structures of proteins came together in hots pools of mud and water. Ever since then evolution has been the driving force: animals that don't survive are the ones with worse characteristics, so those are lost, and only the animals with the best survival characteristics live. This means that over a course of billions of years, more complex life could develop. There is no creator.

[TeamELEMENT115]

respectfully, i have no idea as to why you believe that there is no "creator", the universe is made up of atoms and that is understandable through the big bang. but explain how the big bang created LIFE CELLS. people don't really appreciate the complexity of this.

[TeamELEMENT115]

If this project succeeds after all it will become monopoly. raw material business will vanish, i like it ;)

[Kable645]

While these guys have captured everyone's emotions really well, they really need to hire (or at least consult) a metallurgist and resource geologist. Not going to be an easy process to recover precious metal content from a Fe/Ni matrix.

[Oliver W]

I've come to realise that the majority of people who watch these videos are here for the same thing: I'm guessing everyone here is an atheist or agnostic and finds no point staying on the Earth to rot. Therefore, we see expansion as the way to go in order to help humanity explore the universe.

[Juston Points]

We should ALREADY be mining the asteroids, the moon, and colonizing Mars. Lets get it rolling people! :-)

[Siaynoq8]

I think I saw this video in a Dead Space game before all that Marker business happened.

[WinStormXD]

Ngati kame tsmukan.