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To: EveningStar

This is an opportunity: hogs and asteroids. Both can be exploited in these situations.

The hogs hunted down, killed, and eaten. It’s easy.

The next one ain’t so easy. The asteroids can be hunted down, too. Then mined and smelted (by robots), the valuable metal returned to the moon for manufacturing. This is the Third Industrial Revolution I’m talking about here, the path to U.S. future success.

One average-sized near earth asteroid that contains platinum-group metals is equal in value to the entire Global economic output for one year!


8 posted on 01/01/2011 2:59:36 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: SatinDoll
This is an opportunity: hogs and asteroids. Both can be exploited in these situations.

With China sitting on oodles of rare-earth minerals and hogging it all for themselves and their commie friends I think that its well past time that the USA ramp up asteroid mining since I'd bet that they have mega-oodles of the precious rare-earth minerals that American industries need.

Howbeit, I'd guess that the moment that we start doing it then the commie United Nations will step in and say that the USA has no rights to it since it really belongs to the entire earth!!

11 posted on 01/01/2011 3:07:19 PM PST by prophetic (0Bama = 1 illegal president = 32 illegal, unconstitutional & unnecessary CZARS to do his job!!)
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To: SatinDoll

Easy, you say.

Problem is that it’s not easy.

They’re nocturnal, wrapped in a thick layer of cartilege that bullets often don’t pierce, mean as the dickens, and they breed like rabbits.

I personally saw one survive a razor-tipped arrow that went all the way through him back in October. Ran off, showed back up on the game cam a week later. We recovered the bloody arrow.


12 posted on 01/01/2011 3:10:15 PM PST by Jedidah
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