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- the technology to get up into space, grab an asteroid, bring it safely into orbit where it can be mined, has been around for three decades. "What has been lacking has been the balls to do it", said Isaac.
- The Stott brothers are hoping to interest Apple Computers in getting behind their initiative, to set up a friendly competition between Apple and Google to see who can be the first to successfully bring an asteroid into orbit.
- Check out this graphic from Cutright's document, showing the disbursement of known asteroids in January of 2010, with the same size dot, regardless of asteroid size, and not taking direction vector into consideration. [ note: they seem to be everywhere]
- link to 1 hour plus video of an interview with the Stotts
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