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Sun Apr 22, 2012, 11:55 PM

eqfan592 (5,109 posts)

6. I'm being cautiously optimistic at this point.

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And even tho I know exploration is not likely to be their primary objective, it will likely happen to some degree anyway as a bi-product.

EDIT: Maybe I was wrong, and exploration will be a larger part of it after all. And here is an interesting excerpt from a Forbes article:

Robert Zubrin, chairman of the Mars Foundation, compares Peter Diamandis to Delos David Harriman, the protagonist of Robert Heinlein’s “The Man Who Sold The Moon.”

Harriman hyped the idea of riches on the moon to create a gold rush. Like Harriman, Diamandis sees capitalism as the force that will finally coax humanity off the planet."

Robert Zubrin wrote "The Case for Mars" and if you haven't read it yet you are doing yourself a disservice.

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6 replies	Author	Time	Post
Are Ross Perot Jr. and Google's Founders Launching a New Asteroid Mining Operation? [View all]	bananas	Apr 2012	OP
They have a website, twitter feed, facebook page, youtube channel, and googledoubleplusgood	bananas	Apr 2012	#1
Video interview with Diamondis at MSNBC Cosmiclog	bananas	Apr 2012	#2
"Now I'm a Miner, and I'm Digging Digging Digging Digging Digging"	bananas	Apr 2012	#3
The Bad Astronomer posted about this, too	longship	Apr 2012	#4
I hope they are going for Helium 3 on the Moon instead of precious metals	Motown_Johnny	Apr 2012	#5
I'm being cautiously optimistic at this point.	eqfan592	Apr 2012	#6

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