NASA wants you to help space mining corp strip mine the Solar System

OpenSource?

Who distributes documentation as a .docx file? Have they heard of PDF?

It probably is not a GPU program. The website doesn't seem to say anything on this, and I don't read .docx worth a darn.

I didn't look, but I would not be surprised if the source code is in a Zip archive, instead of a proper tarball. :-)

Bruce Willis on standby

"this application will become a key part of its Asteroid Grand Challenge to spot the next civilization killer before it hits."

No thanks, I'd prefer to be surprised.

Paging PTMC, where is my Pyro GX?

Because we already know where off-planet robot mining leads, right Descent fans? :-)

But what if..

...the smelting facility on the asteroid starts creating duplicate robots, and they come back to earth for vengance?

Asteroids, one of the better arcade games ...

especially when they turned down the house lights for when the "turn" was due on.

They can use my computer

Dual quad core Xeon, 3GHz, 8GB. Will they pay cash now or shares in asteroids for later?

Crowd funding...

...crowd computing...

Anyone know what the legal governance and stated aims are of this company are if it happens to be successful and ends up incredibly rich? Will all this begging the public for resources and cash give a real return to the world or just make some very rich people even richer?

I don't doubt the science being done and the good that can do, but I'm a little concerned at not being able to find anything about any future commercial returns. Yeah, crowd funding is effectively charitable giving without a registered charity licence designed to make the giver "feel good", but the list of people running this venture could find a couple of million down the back of their respective sofas.

Why does this asteroid mining talk remind me off...

the movie "Outland"? Not one of Connery's best but interesting nonetheless. Certainly seemed like a primer on corporate responsibility to employees (or the lack of).

What a load of crock

This reminds me of a daft scheme to dredge the deep ocean for manganese nodules. All looked good till someone pointed out that if the project succeeded the world would be awash with Manganese and it would be worthless. So, what happens to the value of diamonds if a meteor weighing a hundred tons consisting of pure diamond suddenly lands on earth.