Sentences with phrase «as planetary resources»

At the moment, a handful of companies such as Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries and Kepler Energy and Space Engineering have announced various strategies to reach asteroids in the inner solar system.

Not exact matches

Hard as it might be to imagine, a paradise of peace, plenty, and planetary purity is just as achievable as walking on the moon or carrying the world's informational resources in your pocket.

As a business, Planetary Resources is betting that by the time it extracts water from an asteroid, there will be a customer like NASA interested in buying water, hydrogen and oxygen.

He also serves as Chief Financial Officer of Planetary Resources Inc..

Were the church able to provide a vision of a unified planetary society organized both politically and technologically in such a way as to make available the full resources of the earth for the benefit of all the world's people, would it be effective in generating social change?

Stray microbes from Earth could potentially harm not just Martian life, but also resources that human settlers may eventually want, such as aquifers, says John Rummel, who served as NASA's planetary protection officer for more than a decade.

Planetary Resources's staff of 60 includes 50 engineers recruited from companies such as NASA, Intel, Google, and SpaceX; a few astrophysicists; and even economists.

As the CEO and chief asteroid miner of Planetary Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being resources from being overused.

At Planetary Resources, Mr. Lewicki is responsible for the strategic development of the company's mission and vision, engagement with customers and the scientific community, serves as technical compass, and leads day to day operations.

Initially, Planetary Resources will focus not upon precious metals, but easier - to - find resources such as water, oxygen, hydrogen and materials that can be usedResources will focus not upon precious metals, but easier - to - find resources such as water, oxygen, hydrogen and materials that can be usedresources such as water, oxygen, hydrogen and materials that can be used as fuel.

But in the three - and - a-half years since then, Planetary Resources has made significant progress towards developing and testing the technology needed to make its dream become a reality, according to Lewicki, who served as flight director for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and surface mission manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander.

Of course, careers are not as clearly defined as Astrophysics, Earth Science, Sun Science, and Planetary Science; thus, the last category («General») contains resources profiling scientists with interdisciplinary interests and backgrounds.

Mine for resources, cultivate food, build resource centers and shelters, and keep your citizens healthy and happy as you face the numerous challenges of planetary colonization.

Today, in times of resource scarcity, global warming and impending nuclear conflict, this claim is being boldly asserted once again — in the form, however, of a private - sector undertaking driven primarily by US tech billionaires from the new space industry, not least — as they claim — in order to secure the survival of mankind against home - made planetary collapse.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

Excerpt: President Obama's «science czar,» John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, «compulsory sterilization,» and the creation of a «Planetary Regime» that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet — controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.

Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by Wednesday, a report said.

As the 21st century global economy hits natural resource limits and planetary boundaries, fundamental questions about fair shares will start to arise — and these questions will increasingly come to be seen as the new front line for international developmenAs the 21st century global economy hits natural resource limits and planetary boundaries, fundamental questions about fair shares will start to arise — and these questions will increasingly come to be seen as the new front line for international developmenas the new front line for international development.

«Arctic Oil & Gas cites recent scientific evidence that huge, floating mats of azolla - a prehistoric fern believed to have covered much of the Arctic Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 million years ago - decomposed soon after the age of the dinosaurs and exist today as «vast hydrocarbon resources» trapped in layers of rock below the polar ice cap.»