{"id":21490,"date":"2018-11-30T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Theres-a-big-gap-between-knowing-that-an-asteroid-contains-a-lot-of-valuable-metal-and-extracting-that-metal-let"},"modified":"2018-11-30T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:00:47","slug":"theres-a-big-gap-between-knowing-that-an-asteroid-contains-a-lot-of-valuable-metal-and-extracting-that-metal-let","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/11\/30\/theres-a-big-gap-between-knowing-that-an-asteroid-contains-a-lot-of-valuable-metal-and-extracting-that-metal-let\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a big gap between knowing that an asteroid contains a lot of valuable metal and extracting that metal, let&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>There&#8217;s a big gap between knowing that an asteroid contains a lot of valuable metal and extracting that metal, let alone bringing it back to Earth. Of course, you could use it to build things in space which you wouldn&#8217;t have to lift out of a gravity well, and that is probably the most compelling use case for asteroid mining, in reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Alan Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would be a real achievement for NASA, diamonds, platinum and gold from space mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the facebook blog:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nightskyuniverse\/notifications\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nightskyuniverse\/notifications\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-fast-tracking-plans-explore-metal-asteroid-worth-10000-quadrillion\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-fast-tracking-plans-explore-metal-asteroid-worth-10000-quadrillion<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        There&#8217;s a big gap between knowing that an asteroid contains a lot of valuable metal and extracting that metal, let&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/11\/30\/theres-a-big-gap-between-knowing-that-an-asteroid-contains-a-lot-of-valuable-metal-and-extracting-that-metal-let\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}