Nanotechnology to Mine Asteroids
My Session Status
What:
Discussion Panels
When:
9:00 PM, Saturday 31 Aug 2013 ADT
(1 hour)
Where:
ScienceNanotechnologyAsteroid Mining
New private mining companies are proposing various methods to mine materials in the asteroid belt. What methods, both theoretical and off the shelf, could be used to do so? What time scale are we looking at? Will there be any direct, onsite human involvement or just machines of whatever scale?