Asteroid Mining

[Noncommunist]

Apparently, a US company lead by James Cameron and Google's top executives is now planning to mine some asteroids. Huge amounts of minerals can be found within the asteroids, some can even contain amounts of certain elements equivalent to all that we've ever mined on Earth. So this could dramatically change life if it works and some materials become extremely abundant. However, this will still be extremely difficult.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...3f66f6244b.411

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...967904210.html

Any thoughts about it?