I really want to believe this is real. The cynic in me says that anything this outlandish is a fraud - something akin to Project Azorian and magnanese nodules[

I really want to believe this is real. The cynic in me says that anything this outlandish is a fraud - something akin to Project Azorian and magnanese nodules[1]. The parallels are uncanny, but even as a cover mining asteroids makes no sense. Unlike the sea floor, there is nothing else of interest out there in space. If I were writing a sci-fi book the most plausible plot would be that Planetary Resources is a government puppet for dealing with some sort of extraterrestrial contact. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian