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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 05 2017, @10:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the hard-to-swing-a-pick-in-zero-G dept.

So, you want to be an asteroid miner?

So [Williams] started talking to Christopher Dreyer, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines' Center for Space Resources, a research and technology development center that's existed within the school for more than a decade.

It was good timing. Because this summer, Mines announced its intention to found the world's first graduate program in Space Resources—the science, technology, policy, and politics of prospecting, mining, and using those resources. The multidisciplinary program would offer Post-Baccalaureate certificates and Masters of Science degrees. Although it's still pending approval for a 2018 start date, the school is running its pilot course, taught by Dreyer, this semester.

The focus seems to be on space colonies mining what they need in place, more than bringing material back to Earth.


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday December 06 2017, @12:40AM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday December 06 2017, @12:40AM (#605919) Journal

    Chortle.
    Someone who thinks education actually imparts knowledge, rather than filters people who already have knowledge and know how to obtain more. So quaint.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 06 2017, @01:18AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 06 2017, @01:18AM (#605937) Journal

    Chortle.
    Someone who thinks education actually imparts knowledge, rather than filters people who already have knowledge and know how to obtain more. So quaint.

    Pshaw... like all the education of this world reduces to the idiotic way of "imparting" most of the US institutions seems to deliver.

    Education is not meant to impart knowledge. Actually, one can see the knowledge only as the "raw material" to consume in building, in the student, the capacity to think and operate with that knowledge - or, for the matter, any other knowledge not delivered by the institution, perhaps even new knowledge that will be discovered in the future. Oh, the horror, even new knowledge that a former student with thinking ability may discover her/himself.

    But, yes, I can imagine all these may sound as heresy for some USian minds.

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    • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday December 06 2017, @06:10PM

      by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday December 06 2017, @06:10PM (#606246)

      What you describe is as far from heresy as possible among academics. It's their orthodoxy, in fact. But they lost the battle for the soul of higher education when we started expecting people to take out debt to go to school.

      Because if it's going to cost you your future, you would be a fool not to expect it to guarantee that future will be successful enough to cover the check.

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