{"id":162,"date":"2013-04-09T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2013\/04\/09\/thoughtful-interview-of-planetary-resources-eric-anderson-in-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T15:43:32","slug":"thoughtful-interview-of-planetary-resources-eric-anderson-in-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2013\/04\/09\/thoughtful-interview-of-planetary-resources-eric-anderson-in-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Interview of Planetary Resource&#8217;s Eric Anderson in The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-fNFNi7Y0SNQ\/UWQ8QjjfToI\/AAAAAAAAWro\/cbv-aQTbL08\/s1600\/Screen+Shot+2013-04-09+at+12.01.22+PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-fNFNi7Y0SNQ\/UWQ8QjjfToI\/AAAAAAAAWro\/cbv-aQTbL08\/s1600\/Screen+Shot+2013-04-09+at+12.01.22+PM.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Eric Anderson [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Resources<\/a>]: In the next generation or two\u2014say the next 30 to 60 years\u2014there will be an irreversible human migration to a permanent space colony. Some people will tell you that this new colony will be on the moon, or an asteroid\u2014in my opinion asteroids are a great place to go, but mostly for mining. I think the location is likely to be Mars. This Mars colony will start off with a few thousand people, and then it may grow over 100 years to a few million people, but it will be there permanently. That should be really exciting, to be alive during that stage of humanity&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;In 10 years or so, what we&#8217;d really like to do is get robotic exploration of space in line with Moore&#8217;s Law [the tech-world maxim that the price for computing power falls by half every 18 months]. Remember, asteroid mining doesn&#8217;t involve people. We want to transition space exploration from a linear technology into an exponential one, and create an industry that can flourish off of exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It will be possible to know more about an ore body that&#8217;s 10 million miles away from us in space than it would be to know about an ore body 10 miles below the Earth&#8217;s surface.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/03\/the-coming-age-of-space-colonization\/273818\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/03\/the-coming-age-of-space-colonization\/273818\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eric Anderson [Planetary Resources]: In the next generation or two\u2014say the next 30 to 60 years\u2014there will be an irreversible human migration to a permanent space colony. Some people will tell you that this new colony will be on the moon, or an asteroid\u2014in my opinion asteroids are a great place to go, but mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,65,7,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-eric-anderson","category-mars-to-stay","category-planetary-rsrcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}