AsteroidsSpace explorationAstronomySpace stationsThe article offers information on Planetary Resources Inc., a company focused on mining asteroids. It mentions that hydrogen help in recharging power cells and when combined with oxygen to produce energy fu...
Some scientists and entrepreneurs have long-championed the idea that humans could mine the moon and asteroids in the solar system and then progress deeper into the solar system. Some spaceflight designs, for instance, would use elements mined from the moon to fuel up rockets and send them to...
An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait shows us all the ways asteroids can kill us (yipes), and what we must do to avoid them. science technology astronomy space dinosaurs TEDx asteroid...
been signed by 106 countries — but this doesn’t address the topic in any great detail. In the U.S., congress signed the Space Act of 2015 into law several years back. This gives U.S. space firms permission to own and sell the natural resources they mine in space — asteroids ...
as Martian guinea pigs to ensure the safety of the rich. And therein lies the rub, that funneling people into the furnace of progress is the only way forward, because it’s how we’ve always done things. Someone will always need to mine the asteroids and maintain the “autonomo...
This is a sweet article. I was wondering, could I use a Raspberry Pi running Linux instead of a full windows computer in a cabinet like this? I imagine I’d still need a couple ad-ons for the Raspberry Pi to get it sufficient, but your judgement is better than mine. ...
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We don’t have diamond planets in our solar system (and we can’t do interstellar missions), but we do have diamond-studded asteroids. Mine them for long enough and you will wear diamonds on the soles of your shoes. For investors and entrepreneurs, there is the thrill of racing to be ...
A game-changer in prosthetics has been introduced to the world, and for the first time, amputees are regaining sensation through an electrical signal from their prosthetic arm. Max Ortiz-Catalan, a professor of bionics, explains the process of implanting
Interest in asteroids – both from companies who are looking to mine them and from space agencies looking to better understand their composition – is skyrocketing. This artist's concept depicts the 144-mile-wide (232-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between ...