Google execs, director Cameron in space venture

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with "Avatar" director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled next week.

The fledgling company, called Planetary Resources, will be unveiled at a Tuesday news conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, according to a press release issued this week.

Aside from naming some of the company's high-profile backers, the press release disclosed tantalizingly few details, saying only that the company will combine the sectors of "space exploration and natural resources" in a venture that could add "trillions of dollars to the global GDP." The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Planetary Resources will explore the feasibility of mining natural resources from asteroids, a decades-old concept.

"This innovative start-up will create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources,'" according to the press release.

Planetary Resource was co-founded by Eric Anderson, a former NASA Mars mission manager, and Peter Diamandis, the commercial space entrepreneur behind the X-Prize, a competition that offered $10 million to a group that launched a reusable manned spacecraft. Other notable investors include Charles Simonyi, a former top executive at Microsoft, and K. Ram Shriram, a Google director.

“When Newt proposed the exact same thing at his Space Coast speech, helping the private sector get involved for the first time in the space industry, with minimal govt support, he was mocked “

There are billionaire investors who understand new opportunities for wealth and prosperity requires bold dreams.

What if JFK’s moon mission was slammed for being unrealistic?

Seriously, Newt would have been such a good president. He would have spurred this kind of thing.

Instead we will get mush from Mittens, or more likely, Four More Years of “hope! and change!”

When Newt proposed the exact same thing at his Space Coast speech, helping the private sector get involved for the first time in the space industry, with minimal govt support, he was mocked and called crazy out of his mind by lots of people, including lots of Freepers here.

I remember it vividly and I said so at the time... what Newt proposed was representative of mainstream thinking regarding space but rather than objectively compare his proposal to what was being discussed in that arena, he was sneered and jeered at by the press, Senator Sanctimonious, Mitt-the-Flipper and a host of freepers.

I don't expect this announcement to see many mainstream comparisons to Newt's "vision" as outlined in the Space Coast speech.

“When Newt proposed the exact same thing at his Space Coast speech, helping the private sector get involved for the first time in the space industry, with minimal govt support, he was mocked “
There are billionaire investors who understand new opportunities for wealth and prosperity requires bold dreams.
What if JFK’s moon mission was slammed for being unrealistic?
Seriously, Newt would have been such a good president. He would have spurred this kind of thing.

Instead we will get mush from Mittens, or more likely, Four More Years of “hope! and change!”

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