http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/4504/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/company_aims_mine_resource_rich_asteroids <p>The company Planetary Resources plans to develop and launch a series of robotic systems and unmanned spacecraft, starting with its Arkyd-100 Earth-orbiting space telescopes that it hopes to launch by the end of 2013 to identify candidate near-Earth asteroids containing natural resources. A single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid would have the equivalent of all the platinum-group metals ever mined on Earth, the company said. And the right 80-meter asteroid would have more than $100 billion worth of materials, Anderson said.</p> <p><a href="http://www.freetalklive.com/content/company_aims_mine_resource_rich_asteroids" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/company_aims_mine_resource_rich_asteroids#comments News Article private business resources space Space Exploration Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:48:52 +0000 ecigarettes 21202 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/overpopulation_perennial_myth <p>Where people are hungry, it is because of war (Somalia, Ethiopia) or government policies that, in the name of modernization and industrialization, penalize farmers by taxing them at prohibitive rates (e.g., Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya), not because population is exceeding the natural limits of what the world can support.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/overpopulation_perennial_myth#comments Aristotle Carthage Ehrlich Food growth Malthus Myth News Arti