{"id":24864,"date":"2016-04-21T01:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/who-will-protect-us-from-space-pirates"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:56","slug":"who-will-protect-us-from-space-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/who-will-protect-us-from-space-pirates","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Protect Us From Space Pirates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-will-protect-us-from-space-pirates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may sound like sci-fi. But millions and millions of dollars are pouring into projects to mine asteroids and the moon. And with a space gold rush comes space pirates.<\/p>\n<p>With trillions of dollars worth of minerals lying just under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/content\/dailybeast\/videos\/2016\/04\/07\/the-human-computer-behind-the-moon-landing-was-a-black-woman.html\">moon<\/a>\u2019s surface or spinning around the solar system inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/content\/dailybeast\/articles\/2015\/10\/07\/nasa-s-plan-to-save-the-world-let-s-slam-a-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid.html\">asteroids<\/a>, space mining is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/content\/dailybeast\/articles\/2015\/12\/28\/what-s-next-for-outer-space.html\">big business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, big <i>potential <\/i>business. No one has dug nickel out of an asteroid or scooped any tantalum from the lunar dust\u2014at least not for profit. Before space miners can get drilling, they need to invent specialized industrial robots, set up orbital outposts and\u2014arguably most importantly\u2014convince investors, workers, and prospective buyers that space minerals are worth the cost and effort of mining them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/15\/who-will-protect-us-from-space-pirates.html\">http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/15\/who-will-pr...rates.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound like sci-fi. But millions and millions of dollars are pouring into projects to mine asteroids and the moon. And with a space gold rush comes space pirates. With trillions of dollars worth of minerals lying just under the moon\u2019s surface or spinning around the solar system inside asteroids, space mining is big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67670,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864\/revisions\/67670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}