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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.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday December 06 2017, @06:10PM
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.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?