Here we go again banging away at the Rock's in space.
But seriously folks the next California Gold Rush will be to the Asteroid Belt.
As anyone reading my blogs will know I'm a big fan of, "The Expanse" now running on NetFlix everywhere but in the USA.
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The Asteroid Belt is a Gold and Precious Ore Mines Expanse tumbling about in Space.
Waiting to be gutted by any Big Ass corporation, that has the getup and go, to get up and get out there.
But any Corporation will need their Legal ass covered.
Before they start investing their Cryptocurrency Blockchain Ledger Portfolio into this type of,
"Le Grand Adventure."
"So who do you go to my lovely when you have Asteroids in your head"
To change a few lines in a Peter Sarstedt song.
It turns out, all you need to do is, you pack your wagon and head on down to Luxembourg.
That Wild West of places lying in the Badlands of Europa.
Well I am exaggerating a bit. Luxembourg is not the Wild West.
Just a small very rich country that is trying to turn an honest dollar.
You see if you want a piece of offical paper that legally entitles you to, "Gut the Asteroids."
Or Mine if you want the nicer word.
You go to Luxembourg and they will set you up.
They are ready to pump $223 million into mining near-Earth objects.
Most Corporations are already there.
Signed up for the race of a lifetime.
The new Lux Law says, "You find it you keep it."
So now we are back to Avatar and Unobtainium.
The payoff will be unlimited. As long as there are Asteroids to Gut the Cash will just keep rolling in.
I am not a big fan. This is up there with the Russians selling of Alaska and Brian Epstein selling 90% of the merchandise rights for the Beatles in the UK for peanuts.
These Asteroids belong to all of us living on Planet Earth. Not just some Nobs living in La La Lux Land.
The US has agreed the same type of "Oklahoma Land Rush"
But as in any Government controlled land rush, land grab it will be rigged in favor of the, Big Daddy Corporations
Along with any Gold/Land rush you are going to get the biggest Pump and Dump Scams in history.
Now that is a no-brainer.
If you as a dumb ass investor, are told you will get a guaranteed return of around 1,000% on your investment.
You will invest. Nigerian 419er Asteroid Scams here we come.
Asteroids of Pure Gold just waiting to be loaded on a ship and taken back to Earth.
"Why the there is so much Gold up there, nobody owns it, it's just lying on the ground waiting to be plucked."
Its the oul, "Manifest Destiny" again again again. This time into our Solar System
Ignoring the fact that most of the money made, will not be on the stuff transported back to Earth.
But supplying the vast building programs that will start, as soon as we have the building blocks for Cities in space.
These Cities will be built at the Lagrange Points.
Lagrange Points exist between the Earth and Moon where the gravitational pull is nullified.
Lagrange Point 5 or L5 was a proposal to built a Space City by Gerard K.O'Neil in the 1970s called "The High Frontier."
Now that is something I would support.
Deep Space Industries have released a Video as to what they are up to.
Or as we know them from Avatar. "The Resources Development Administration."
I have to accept these guys are serious about mining Space for their "Share Holders."
But I just know it will all get fucked up again.
Luckily there are no Indigenous Natives to massacre this time around.
That we know off.
My money is on another company making an appearance, "Deep Space Trump Industries"
The Future's Bright, The Future's Orange;D#
Luxembourg’s Bid to Become the Silicon Valley of Space Mining
IN THE 1980S, during the nascent days of the satellite communications industry, Luxembourg foresaw the fat cat it could become. The tiny European nation, known for steel manufacturing and tax breaks, provided financial support and passed regulations that allowed its homegrown satellite company, SES, to thrive. And because it provided that early support, one of the globe’s smallest countries came to host the world’s second-largest commercial satellite operator.
Luxembourg liked the way that went down. And now, 30 years later, the country is positioning itself to iterate on that plot, in a different off-Earth industry: asteroid mining.
Asteroid mining is what it sounds like: going to the solar system’s hard bodies, extracting valuable resources, and using them to make something new. If humans are going to become a spacefaring species, they can’t launch all the necessaries from Cape Canaveral. Instead, spacecraft needing a top-off could get fuel from asteroid ice. Humans could scrape space materials to construct orbiting hotels. Martian colonists needn’t bring excessive carry-ons: They could draw building materials and H2O from their home body or an asteroid.
Bold forecasters speak of a full-on celestial supply-chain. In that version of the future, the entities that control that supply chain—doing the mining and selling the resources—will become very rich. They will, in a way, rule that final frontier. In 2016, Luxembourg began taking steps toward dominating the industry, and so potentially the flow of cash and commodities beyond Earth.
Luxembourg Is Luxe
Let us establish a few things: First, Luxembourg is rich. According to the World Bank, its per capita GDP is $101,450, compared to the US’s $56,115. Second, it’s tiny, smaller than Rhode Island with the population of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Historically, Luxembourg has attempted political neutrality, and nearly half of its residents are foreign nationals. If you believe the kinds of studies that quantify happiness, it is feeling good about all of the above. In fact, Luxembourg is a bit analogous to a utopian space colony: small, confined, welcoming of outsiders, well-off, politically and psychologically stable.
Read the Whole Wired Article Here:
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/luxembourg-setting-silicon-valley-space-mining/
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