Want Faster Data and a Cleaner Planet? Start Mining Asteroids

I have an interest in the mining of asteroids, which features as a central driver of the plot in my upcoming novel The Cloud.

By Philip Metzger

Mining asteroids might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but there are companies and a few governments already working hard to make it real. This should not be surprising: compared with the breathtaking bridges that engineers build on Earth, asteroid-mining is a simple, small-scale operation requiring only modest technological advances. If anything is lacking, it is the imagination to see how plausible it has become. I am afraid only that it might not arrive soon enough to address the urgent resource challenges that the world is facing right now.

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