Asteroid Mining is Almost Reality

iSN’T THAT COST A LIMITING FACTOR?

It very well could be. Simply put: the pricey part of this isn’t the R&D that goes into working out how to do asteroid mining. Nor is it the launches that take place to actually the achieve the goal. Instead, the really expensive bit is getting the materials back to Earth once we’ve mined them.

What will be mined? Why would anyone want to do this? And who are the main players in this (literal) space? Read on for a beginner’s guide to all things asteroid mining.

Read the whole story here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/beginners-guide-to-asteroid-mining/

Name A Town LEADVILLE?

I wonder if you could find anyone today to name a new town LEADVILLE? 
Not if You Wanted Anyone to Live There. Unlikely I suspect. There are many stories about Leadville. Here are some of them from the Aspen Times.

Tony Vagneur

According to The Leadville Daily/Evening Chronicle, as quoted in a chapter of "Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the American West," Leadville had "19 hotels, 41 lodging houses, 82 drinking saloons, 38 restaurants, 13 wholesale liquor houses, 147 lawyers, 12 blacksmith shops, 6 livery stables, 3 undertakers, 21 gambling houses, 4 theatres, 4 dance halls, and 35 houses of prostitution." Nicknamed Cloud City, Leadville in the 1880s had a population of around 50,000 souls — only about 2,600 today.

Read more here:  https://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/tony-vagneur-leadville-and-aspen-are-sisters-who-are-the-same-but-very-different/