Asteroid mining and other out-there ideas from the tech titans

For a lot of reasons, the legal ramifications of today's asteroid mining announcement are almost as complex as the technological ones. “As far as law is concerned, there's nothing inherently in the space treaties that prohibits

Well, the big day has finally arrived. Planetary Resources, the space company funded by the Google founders, James Cameron, and other billionaires, has revealed its plans to make trillions by mining asteroids.

THIS PHOTO MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST OR POSTED ONLINE BEFORE APRIL 24 2012 AT 3:00 AM EDT – This computer-generated image provided by Planetary Resources, a group of high-tech tycoons that wants to mine nearby asteroids, shows a conceptual

THIS PHOTO MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST OR POSTED ONLINE BEFORE APRIL 24 2012 AT 3:00 AM EDT – This computer-generated image provided by Planetary Resources, a group of high-tech tycoons that wants to mine nearby asteroids, shows a conceptual

Well, the big day has finally arrived. Planetary Resources, the space company funded by the Google founders, James Cameron, and other billionaires, has revealed its plans to make trillions by mining asteroids.