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Startup backed by James Cameron, Larry Page planning asteroid mining?
A cryptic press release issued last week suggested a blockbuster team of investors — including Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page and Canadian film maker James Cameron — is set to back a space exploration venture that could have plans to mine asteroids.
The release contained few details of the team’s plans but suggested more would be revealed Tuesday morning during a news conference at Seattle’s Museum of Flight.
“The company will overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources — to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP,” the release said, adding that the startup would “create a new industry and new definition of ‘natural resources.’” (Photo:NASA/JPL-Caltech/Reuters)
James Cameron on historic trip into the abyss: It was like visiting an ‘alien world’
Titanic director James Cameron described a “desolate” and “alien” environment on the bottom of the sea after a record-setting solo submarine dive to the deepest point in the world’s oceans.
See James Cameron emerge from the deepest point on Earth after taking a submarine to the Mariana Trench
Avatar film director James Cameron has completed the world’s first solo dive to the deepest-known point on Earth, reaching the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench southwest of Guam in a specially designed submarine.
The filmmaker arrived at the site known as “Challenger Deep” shortly before 8 a.m. local time on Monday, reaching a depth of 35,756 feet, or roughly 7 miles beneath the ocean’s surface, said the National Geographic Society, which is overseeing the expedition.
“Hitting bottom never felt so good. Can’t wait to share what I’m seeing w/ you,” the 57-year-old filmmaker said on Twitter, just after he touched down. (Photos: Reuters/National Geographic/Mark Thiessen)
Aquaman: James Cameron just can’t stay out of the water, even when he’s only producing. (Illustration by Steve Murray)
Film review: Aqua Damned
What can possibly go wrong with a blockbuster executive-produced by the filmmaker who brought us Titanic, Avatar and countless other thrill rides? Quite a bit, it turns out.
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