Congress Votes to Legalize Space Mining - IGN News

Commercial entities could reap trillions of dollars from mining precious materials in space

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[KayoMichiels]

Planetes? Okay... Nestlé is gonna exploit Mars for it's water like hell!

[Ice_]

They clearly don't know what happened to Krypton.

[Mrniceguy]

I'm pretty sure this game is PS4 exclusive and it will be in 1080p and 60fps

[nastytoure]

James Cameron and his Avatar movie was right!

[DarkPyroZero]

this is great news, now how do we the people get up there before the greedy companies?

[marcuscarcus]

Great, now we're gonna destroy other planets and not just our own.

[MistahBroccoli]

Didn't know Congress had jurisdiction over space, they are more powerful than I thought

[daveypryme]

Please tell me why there has to be a law for this. Who the hell is gonna be like
"nah foo you, you cant keep those minerals, they're from space."

[tech]

Congress doesn't have any say in the matter. That clown show can't even do anything useful on land much less space.

[mambo]

ONE THING!!!! SPACE ISN'T US TERRITORY!!!! IT'S FROM EVERYONE!

[danieldragotti]

I hope that this doesn't turn in to a real life version of dead space

[juliobetancourt]

Saying that water is the oil of space is a huge understatement. Finding water in space is like finding a unicorn on earth, we know it exists but its hard to find. But if you find said space unicorn, you'll hit the jackpot.

[ozlek]

Space Water. It just like Earth water, but from space. $10 a bottle.

[sebastianmcc]

well its finally time to use that old rocket ship i have in my garage....oh wait...only the government has rockets

[armsdealer]

so will we have a real life USG ishimura mining ship soon? :D

[Zagardal]

Finders keepers? yeah, cause that logic has never backfired in human history. Other than motivating investment and R&D, fueled on greed of course, I don't see this working properly.

[CreamCrushed]

this is what happened in dead Space and look how that turned out.

[EcstasyTiger]

But... isn't this international territory?

[random]

ist there some kinds of international treaty that says no one can own stuff from space? Wasn't it referenced in "The Martian"? That's what makes him a pirate.

[gustavobeltran]

And this is how it started dead space...