Is this different than the Electronic Pearl Harbor? That was supposed to happen a while ago. Maybe I missed it.
Will this one also be in Hawaii? Will Richard Clarke narrate it? He's been pushing for a new Pearl Harbor for a while.
I guess we'll have to wait. It turns out that these craven bullshit artists *don't* actually know what they're talking about.
That's the title of the actual Space.com post. It details how the US Bureau of Land Management has released a notice of how it will regulate the collection of meteorites on public lands. That's it.
It has nothing to do with asteroid mining. Any inference of how this would map to any asteroid mining is a wild-ass
When people are able to mine asteroids, any "governing body" in a planetary gravity well is not going to be able to enforce early 21st century administrative law on entities that can *deliver product at will*.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
