Jupiter Mining Corp?

[Robert]

Red Dwarf comes a step nearer:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-...er-Space-Mining-Company-Launches-323092.shtml

Now, a new company, Deep Space Industries, is launching with somewhat the same goal. It's probably even more ambitious, as it plans to have a fleet of spacecraft flying as early as 2015 and ready to harvest resources off of near-Earth asteroids within a decade.

 

[metalman]

How the Space Miners Will Bring Trillions of Dollars to Earth

 

[metalman]

Another new asteroid mining venture plans to send fleets of small spacecraft to rendezvous with space rocks, aiming to harvest their contents. That makes two startups now in the asteroid-rush of the early 21st-century teens. This one also plans to use asteroid materials right where they’re found, as feedstock for spaceborne 3-D printers.

 

[Glaucus]

I bet that would make a great game!

 

[Robert]

Some analysis from The Register:

In the last year, we've seen two commercial ventures announce different plans to harvest the material bounty of the solar system by mining asteroids. So are we at the foothills of a post-scarcity economy or are people blowing a lot of hot air on the latest fad du jour?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/24/asteroid_mining_economy/

 

[redrumloa]

Cool, let me know when one of these companies go public.