{"id":7826,"date":"2013-01-23T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2013-01-23T09:01:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:01:23","slug":"competition-heats-up-in-asteroid-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/competition-heats-up-in-asteroid-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition Heats Up In Asteroid Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?attachment_id=7827\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7827\" alt=\"Asteroid Mining\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BryanVersteeg-asteroid_mining-6501.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BryanVersteeg-asteroid_mining-6501.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BryanVersteeg-asteroid_mining-6501-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Centives has previously reported on a group of billionaires who have chosen to use their money to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-do-you-do-if-youre-a-billionaire\/\">mine asteroids <\/a>rather than form a secret society with a tacky name such as &#8220;League of Evil&#8221; which plans to take over the world. (Although comic books haven&#8217;t totally misled us &#8211; these individuals are at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-legality-of-mining-an-asteroid\/\">a little evil<\/a>.) Matt Smith writes that now they have competition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep Space Industries wants to send a fleet of &#8220;fireflies&#8221; to prospect asteroids for minerals, and then later send &#8220;dragonflies&#8221; to mine them and return to earth.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists point out that this is unlikely to be cost effective since it costs billions of dollars to bring a few grams of matter back to earth &#8211; and gold prices haven&#8217;t become that high yet.<\/li>\n<li>Deep Space Industries responds that by piggy-backing off other space launches, they&#8217;ll cut down on the cost of fuel and make things more cost-effective.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately the hope is to pioneer technology that could let humans set up a permanent base in space &#8211; and mine materials from the surrounding systems to sustain themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the effort over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/22\/us\/space-asteroid-mining\/index.html?npt=NP1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/22\/us\/space-asteroid-mining\/index.html?npt=NP1\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centives has previously reported on a group of billionaires who have chosen to use their money to mine asteroids rather than form a secret society with a tacky name such as &#8220;League of Evil&#8221; which plans to take over the world. (Although comic books haven&#8217;t totally misled us &#8211; these individuals are at least a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BryanVersteeg-asteroid_mining-6501.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}