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originally posted by BomSquad
NASA has no drive to become profitable. There are no shareholders to be accountable to. (Not that shareholders are always vigilant about a company, either....look at Enron.) Private companies have a much tougher time hiding inefficiencies.
Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
Does every body see the red wave coming? IMO that China is the very country that will endevour to start the space mining venture...
they have all the people, time, and money to do it, and the biggest reason of all...
asteroids have minerals and metals that China is rapidly depleting all over the world...
they have the most to gain, and the most ability to risk...
while Japan is building space hotels, and China is going to the asteroid belt past Mars... the West will be debating whether God intended us to travel in space at all...
thank god for the space capitalists... may they go fast and far.