http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/get-ready-to-mine-space/ Space Mining, Space Settlement, and Space Science! Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:57:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/get-ready-to-mine-space/#comment-376 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:05:00 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=197#comment-376 Hi RIchard! We now have a carbon composite drum instead of the metal drum shown in the picture, so it is already lighter. But this is an engineering test unit so it is not made from fully flight-like materials, anyhow. That’s a cool idea about putting octopus legs on it. Have you seen ATHLETE, the six-legged rover built by NASA/JPL?

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/get-ready-to-mine-space/#comment-293 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:31:19 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=197#comment-293 Why do the drums look so heavy on this machine? we need some octopus style legs to help pull a lighter cheaper version, just my opinion.

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/get-ready-to-mine-space/#comment-135 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:08:43 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=197#comment-135 […] Space mining is critically important to the future of human civilization.  This series of posts discusses the best type of asteroid to bring back to Earth to mine.  The previous post (Part 1) discussed why the asteroids formed near Jupiter and why their chemistry is different than the chemistry of Earth.  This post (part 2) will now explain why there are such different types of asteroids. […]

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/get-ready-to-mine-space/#comment-128 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:11:23 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=197#comment-128 […] Several space mining companies plan to mine asteroids, and they want to bring back to Earth either the entire asteroid or just the part that they mined from it.  Either way, obtaining resources in space will be revolutionary for exploration and for the advancement of human civilization into space, so bringing back an asteroid for the first time may well be one of those special moments in human history that we never forget. […]

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/get-ready-to-mine-space/#comment-41 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:52:50 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=197#comment-41 […] start-ups. Dr. Philip Metzger, a NASA physicist/planetary scientist, has recently posted about recent space mining activity on his blog. Perhaps if these technologies were more mature WORMWOOD could be redirected after […]

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