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Want faster data and a cleaner planet? Start mining asteroids

9 mins | Feb 1, 2018

Environmentally friendly. Potentially data boosting. Space offers incredible resources—is it time we tapped into them? Philip Metzger, writing in Aeon magazine presents the case for mining asteroids.

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