Billionaires say they will save humanity by mining asteroids

A group of prominent investors, including James Cameron, Google leaders Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Ross Perot, Jr., will be holding a press conference this week to announce the world's first asteroid mining company, boasting in a statement that it will "add trillions of dollars to the global GDP," "help ensure humanity's prosperity," and "create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources.'" Details on how this will be done are being kept quiet -- presumably until the event -- but the fact that so many big names are involved suggests asteroid mining may soon no longer be science fiction.