Mining In Space
Beginning of paper
On December 10, 1986 the Greater New York Section of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the engineering
section of the New York Academy of Sciences jointly presented a program on
mining the planets. Speakers were Greg Maryniak of the Space Studies
Institute (SSI) and ....
Middle of paper
.... this economic drawback necessarily translates
into a political problem.
Maryniak continued by noting that the early settlers in North America did
not attempt to transport across the Atlantic everything then needed to
sustain them in the New World. Rather they brought their tools with them
and constructed their habitats from local materials. Hence, he suggested
that the solution to the dilemma to which he referred required not so
much a shift in technology as a shift in thinking. Space, he arg ....
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