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The First Trillionaires Will Make Their Fortunes in Space

The First Trillionaires Will Make Their Fortunes in Space
What's the Big Idea? Just as explorers during the Age of Discovery established new trade routes in pursuit of resources such as gold, silver and spices, the future explorers of space will be chasing unimaginable riches. As Peter Diamandis told the International Space Development Conference, “There are twenty-trillion-dollar checks up there, waiting to be cashed!” These cosmic cash cows are so-called Near-Earth asteroids that contain a wide range of precious resources. Sure, this may sound a lot like the movie Avatar, in which the RDA Corporation mined the mineral unobtanium on the planet of Pandora. But this is no pie-in-the-sky idea. Peter Diamandis, who founded the non-profit X Prize Foundation to create a rewards incentive program to bring about "radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity," believes the enormous financial opportunities in space will spur innovation. What's the significance? Why Should I Care? Asteroids represent a dual threat and opportunity for humanity.

Can we change the future? A scientific view... I was reading this article from 1998 about quantum theory – I know it’s pretty old…, but there was something about it that struck me! It’s maybe also because I’m reading this book that contains a lot of prescience characteristics or just my open mind. So, I decided to put together all this scientific evidence with one scope – Can we change the future? Do we have an influence on our future? An extract from the article on ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 1998) “demonstrating how a beam of electrons is affected by the act of being observed. To demonstrate this, the researchers built a tiny device measuring less than one micron in size, which had a barrier with two openings. Alain Aspect, a French physicist, in 1982 discovered that subatomic particles such as elections are able to automatically - instantaneously - simultaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. And then, come all the questions: Is our future written?

5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids | Asteroids & Comets | Asteroid Exploration & Space Rocks Karen Rowan, Life's Little Mysteries Managing Editor | June 25, 2011 03:13pm ET Credit: Emily Lakdawalla/Ted StrykWhile missions to celestial bodies such like Mars or the moon may sound more exciting than a mission to a mere asteroid, scientists say we have much to learn from these irregularly-shaped rocks that roll through our solar system. Here are 5 reasons why we should care about asteroids: Congressman Claims People Struggling to Survive on Food Stamps are ‘Intentionally Buying Overpriced Food’ Conservative firebrand Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) argued in a press release on Tuesday that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides cushy benefits to recipients and accused Democrats protesting proposed cuts of engaging in a “left-wing publicity stunt intended to make it appear proposed cuts to food stamps would leave families unable to feed themselves.” On Friday, the Senate advanced a farm bill that would take $4 billion out of SNAP and the House is considering cutting the program by 2.5 percent and leaving some two million families without food assistance. In response, more than 26 members of Congress are taking the “SNAP Challenge,” living off a food stamp budget for a week to draw attention to the inadequacy of the average benefit of $4.50 per day. Forty-seven million Americans are currently enrolled in the program. Stockman’s office appears to misunderstand the challenge. Indeed, as Rep.

Dawn Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Two new papers based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn mission show that volatile, or easily evaporated materials, have colored Vesta’s surface in a broad swath around its equator. Pothole-like features mark some of the asteroid’s surface where the volatiles, likely water, released from hydrated minerals boiled off. While Dawn did not find actual water ice at Vesta, there are signs of hydrated minerals delivered by meteorites and dust evident in the giant asteroid’s chemistry and geology. The findings appear today in the journal Science. One paper, led by Thomas Prettyman, the lead scientist for Dawn’s gamma ray and neutron detector (GRaND) at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., describes how the instrument found signatures of hydrogen, likely in the form of hydroxyl or water bound to minerals in Vesta’s surface.

Bitcoin will prosper — until governments or banks decide to crush it overnight Every currency created since the advent of money 2,700 years ago has fit nicely into one of two classifications: Either it was a representative money system, deriving its worth from a link to some physical store of value like gold, silver or gemstones; or it was fiat, deriving its value from the fact that a government or central authority guaranteed it. Bitcoin, the world’s most successful digital currency, defies this time-tested classification system: It is neither fiat nor representative. It is not fiat, because its supply is actually finite and, more importantly, it lacks any central backing authority. (Click here for a good primer on the tech behind Bitcoin). Nor is it representative, because it is not linked to anything physical. Thus the internet has (once again) spawned a phenomenon that is inexplicable via conventional economic frameworks. Anonymity threatens control Monetary control is power Governments hold nuclear option The strategy, by the way, is not prohibition.

Billionaires and Futurists Plan Space Missions to Mine Asteroids for Metals It’s been long thought, especially in science-fiction, that once Earth’s dwindling metallic resources dry up, the human race would look to the stars for precious metals. While this has been posited for decades in science-fiction literature, this is the first time that futurists are actually planning missions to harvest asteroids from space for metals. Asteroids contain many tons of precious metals, and that’s why a consortium of wealthy, adventurous entrepreneurs have announced a new venture called Planetary Resources that plans to send swarms of robots into space to scout for asteroids containing precious metals. They state that there are plenty of riches available in the solar system, making the ones on Earth pale in comparison. There are long time-scales that need to be considered before any such venture might lead to astronomical profits, which is one of the main reasons why investors haven’t taken part in such undertakings before. [via Wired]

Banksters are Coming for Your Retirement Next Eric BlairActivist Post First, the banksters hoodwinked an angry public into bailing out their collateralized-debt obligations and derivative Ponzi scheme to the tune of what may turn out to be over $600 Trillion dollars. Derivatives are nothing more than bets on other bets, on other bets, that are all completely worthless. So, we can assume that the taxpayer will be victimized for at least that amount for derivatives alone. That’s about $2 million dollars for every man, woman, and child in America, or $100,000 for every person in the world. They bet big with your investment money, got fat, then lost thousands of times more than everything real on Earth combined. Sadly, their derivative Ponzi scheme is the least of the public’s current problems regarding the banks. , John Perkins, would say: the time has come for the banks to collect their “pound of flesh” from average citizens by way of your pensions. As we near the End Game

INFOGRAPHIC: Why asteroid mining can create a trillion-dollar industry Space mining start-up Planetary Resources has put together quite the infographic to explain how asteroid mining will create a trillion-dollar industry. The company says there are over 1,500 asteroids as easy to get to as the surface of the Moon. They are also in Earth-like orbits with small gravity fields, which make them easier to approach and depart. The most important aspect of asteroid mining is that those celestial bodies are platinum-rich. (Click on the image to see it full-sized) Amplats shuts mines, axes 14,000 jobs and sends platinum prices skyrocketing>> >> INFOGRAPHIC: Why asteroid mining is necessary>> >> Wanted: Colonists to build first human settlement on Mars>> >> Cecilia Jamasmie Email: cjamasmie@mining.com Cecilia Jamasmie on Cecilia Jamasmie is one of the news editors at MINING.com.

Government Shutdown: The Next Step In The Collapse Of The Dollar? Brandon SmithActivist Post There is a considerable amount of debate in alternative economic circles as to whether a federal government shutdown would be a “good thing” or a “bad thing”. Frankly, even I am partially conflicted. I love to read mainstream news stories about how a shutdown in the capital would be “horrible” because Barack Obama might have to reduce the White House cleaning staff and wash his own laundry. It's about time that sellout bastard did something to clean up his own act. That said, as much as centralized government needs to be erased from the face of the planet, there are, indeed, consequences that must be dealt with. As I write this, mainstream media projections estimate a 90% chance of government shutdown by midnight on September 30th. We have dealt with this kind of talk before over the past few years, and it's interesting to see the kind of cynicism that has developed over the idea of a shutdown event. Obamacare is designed to fail. Exponential Debt

Has America Been Set Up As History's Ultimate Bumbling Villain? The high priests of academic and “official” history love a good villain for two reasons: First, because good official villains make the struggles and accomplishments of good official heroes even more awe-inspiring. And, second, because nothing teaches (or propagandizes) the masses more thoroughly than the social or political lessons inherent in the documented rise and fall of the world's most despicable inhabitants. We get shivers of fear and excitement when we discuss the evils and the follies of ancient monsters like Nero, Attila the Hun, Caligula, etc, or more modern monsters, like Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Goebbels, Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and so on. We take solace in the idea that “we are nothing like them”, and our nation has “moved beyond” such animalistic behavior. But even more fascinating popcorn-style history is found not in the destruction of tyrants, but the destruction of empires. America's Villainous Mustache Putin Is Not Your Buddy

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