By John S. Lewis
John Lewis, well known writer of well known technological know-how books, Rain of Iron and Ice, and Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets and Planets, has published his most modern book, Asteroid Mining one hundred and one: Wealth for a brand new house Economy. thought of to be the worlds’ most advantageous specialist on Asteroids and close to Earth gadgets, Dr. Lewis has created this finished consultant to Asteroid Mining.
The rising asteroid mining has tremendous formidable intentions. it really is in the realm of threat that their paintings may possibly herald a metamorphosis in worldwide economics as profound because the business Revolution.
As could be anticipated, press reviews facing asteroid mining were a variety of, ranging in scope from brief and breezy to large and severe, and in caliber from exact to impressionistic to easily uninformed.
There is sweet cause to be all in favour of what could be the greatest game-changer in human fiscal historical past. and there's sturdy cause to appear heavily on the underlying technological know-how and engineering that shape the root of this work.
“Almost every little thing that I care approximately so much are available in the pages of this awesome paintings: meteorites, comets, asteroids, robots, geology, mining or even spaceships. Dr Lewis is going into attention-grabbing info concerning the starting place and composition of meteorites, then takes us on a trip to the asteroids themselves. The reader starts to know the magnificent medical and fabric wealth watching for us inside these rubble piles. Reading Asteroid Mining 101 made me are looking to seize my favourite pickaxe and wear a spacesuit. Be warned asteroids, we’re coming to get you!” --Geoff Notkin, technology author and host of TV’s Meteorite Men.
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Who could have predicted this? Well, the father of American rocketry, Robert H. Goddard did. The father of Russian rocketry, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, did—and both saw this future over a century ago! But nothing was done: technology was too immature; the cost was prohibitive; imagination was lacking. Clearly, they were crazy. The New York Times said as much in an editorial on “Moon-mad” Goddard’s craziness published in 1926. In any other time this would have sounded crazy. To many people it still does.
It was at these meetings that we began to develop the depth of understanding and connect the dots that would enable us to realize that the dream of expanding human civilization into space was not only feasible, but imminently so, and yes, imperative. It is from the core concepts laid out by Dr. Lewis that we were able to translate Dr. O’Neill’s vision into the reality of a set of basic steps that could lead us to establishment of companies and teams that would really begin to make it happen. And it was a result of their ability to listen to us, interact with us in ways that were firm and yet encouraging that created in us a self confidence and fired our passions with the heat of urgency so that we could go out into a world that sees us as crazy to do exactly what the people in that world need us to do.
A vibrant asteroid mining industry will help illuminate the deep dark and give us better warning of the still-unseen apocalyptic rocks headed our way. Scouting Missions Reveal the Unseen Small prospecting missions will begin to answer key questions about asteroid resources and asteroid threats. For example, the only detailed photographs of NEAs are of those 500 meters and larger in diameter. All of the photographed NEAs have been rubble piles, loose gatherings of boulders, pebbles and regolith (shattered rock) held together by the asteroid’s own weak gravity.