NewsDaily: Into deep space: second U.S. firm takes aim at mining asteroids
Where is Hanna to share my joy?..A team of entrepreneurs and engineers unveiled plans on Tuesday for a space mining company that would tap nearby asteroids for raw materials to fuel satellites and manufacture components in orbit.
It's been theorized (by some people) that the modern Western-style capitalism is near collapse because of the various monetary-value related issues and could only operate on a hype and not under the normal conditions. To which I always replied that the space mining is the next big hype which effects would overshadow just about anything we've seen so far. And whoever would jump on that faster (technologically developed countries, that is) would benefit the most.
So, I repeat my call again, my dear socialist friends: rather than breaking spears on how to distribute the resources more evenly, let's work on how to get more resources for the entire humanity. That way, the entire humanity would live better.
I guess, some of the presently oil-exporting and other third-world countries which prefer to keep the mentality of its people in the Middle Ages might not like that idea, as the focus shift into the more intellectually labourous processes will most likely disturb the society principles they live in. So, will there be the WWIII or the pragmatism would take over? What do you think?