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Google And James Cameron to Fund Plans to Mine Astroids

04/24/2012
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  • Asteroid mining
    You can't accuse James Cameron of ever thinking small. Not content with reaching the bottom of the Marianas Trench last month, the Avatar director is now, along with Google Inc executive Eric Schmidt, planning to fund a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids in orbit near Earth. The science fiction-like mission will be headed by Washington-based Planetary Resources, Inc....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/google-and-james-cameron-to-fund-plans-to-mine-astroids/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Asteroid scanning
    You can't accuse James Cameron of ever thinking small. Not content with reaching the bottom of the Marianas Trench last month, the Avatar director is now, along with Google Inc executive Eric Schmidt, planning to fund a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids in orbit near Earth. The science fiction-like mission will be headed by Washington-based Planetary Resources, Inc....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/google-and-james-cameron-to-fund-plans-to-mine-astroids/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Near Earth Asteroids
    You can't accuse James Cameron of ever thinking small. Not content with reaching the bottom of the Marianas Trench last month, the Avatar director is now, along with Google Inc executive Eric Schmidt, planning to fund a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids in orbit near Earth. The science fiction-like mission will be headed by Washington-based Planetary Resources, Inc....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/google-and-james-cameron-to-fund-plans-to-mine-astroids/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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Asteroid mining

You can't accuse James Cameron of ever thinking small. Not content with reaching the bottom of the Marianas Trench last month, the Avatar director is now, along with Google Inc executive Eric Schmidt, planning to fund a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids in orbit near Earth. The science fiction-like mission will be headed by Washington-based Planetary Resources, Inc....

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