Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
Today, nothing can replace terrestrial mining. But if make the necessary long-term investments, our reward will be nearly infinite cheap resources, and a cleaner, healthier Earth.
# space
Asteroid mining may require changes to The Outer Space Treaty and the consequences of amending it badly could be very serious...
# space
Space entrepreneurs are excited about the promise of asteroid mining. But there are a lot of big, complicated questions they'll have to answer before we know if they can ever make a profit from it.
# astrobiology
Could we spot aliens not by their signals into outer space, but by their mining activity?
# astrobiology
Some of this blog's readers would make really scary and really good alien invaders...
# space
Asteroid mining is touted as the industry of the future. But how ready are we to harvest raw materials from the asteroid belt at a profit?