MINING ASTEROIDS?

This is from an article in the "Seattle Business" magazine.

 

 

Is the idea of mining asteroids a science-fiction notion or can it become a reality?  A number of companies have sprung up to take on the challenge.  Funded by some of the world's wealthiest people and staffed by some of the top minds in aeronautics, these companies believe the time has come for a new multibillion-dollar space industry, with the Puget Sound region serving as its launch pad.

 

Planetary Resources located in Bellevue Washington wants to use unmanned spacecraft to mine asteroids for precious metals.  There are thousands of near-Earth asteroids in close proximity to our planet.  Past analysis shows a single one could contain very large amounts of platinum-group metals.

 

There are many challenges ahead but there is also the intrigue of going beyond our earthly environment and heading out into space, the final frontier.

CHESS JOKE

 

Check out the Tacoma Chess Club

www.tacomachess.org 

 

U.S. MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY

Sunday November 10th is the 238th Birthday

of the United States Marine Corps

"Semper Fi"

 

The Marine Corps Memorial was created from this picture taken

by Joe Rosenthal of the Asscocited Press

Joe Rosenthal caught the flag raising on February 24th 1945 at the top of Mount Suribachi on the small isand of Iwo Jima.  That afternoon the Marines had cleared the slopes of enemy resistance and raised the U.S. flag.  Raising the flag are 5 Marines and one Navy Corpsman: Sgt Michael Strank, Cpl Harlon H. Block, Pfc Franklin R. Sousley, Pfc Rene A Gagnon, Pfc Ira Hayes and PhM.2/c John H. Bradley.

Unfortunately 3 of these men would lose their lives as fighting continued on Iwo Jima.  The three killed were Strank, Block and Sousley.

May God bless them and all our service men and women.

VETERANS DAY

VETERANS DAY IS MONDAY NOVEMBER 11th

Please honor our service men and women

IT'S A CHANGING WORLD

Yes it is a changing world.  A recent survey conducted by American Express shows that a large number of people believe that Online business relationships are as valuable as face-to-face business relationships.  As shown in the chart below, 42% of people interviewed believe that to be true.  That percentage will probably increase over time as more young people enter the work force.  Young people coming out of High School today have never lived in a world without  computers.