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Will Mining the Moon and Asteroids Be Worth the Trouble?
The new era of space exploration is opening entirely new possibilities, including the tantalising prospect of mining for resources on the Moon and asteroids. Sounds exciting—and potentially very profitable—but the reality of the situation is that space mining is completely uncharted territory. Plenty of prospecting needs to be done first to determine if these resources…
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This Is Now The Longest Train Journey In The World
21 days. That’s the time it will take to complete the largest train journey in the world. 9977 kilometres that go from Yiwu, China, to Madrid, Spain. It’s also part of the New Silk Road, a Chinese project to gain control over transcontinental cargo transportation between Asia and Europe.
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Artist Installs 150 CCTV Cameras On Side Of Building
On the side of a building in Madrid, the Spanish artist SpY recently installed 150 CCTV cameras with, in the artist’s words, “the intention of not watching over anything.” It kind of makes us long for the days when CCTV was the most threatening symbol of the surveillance state. [SpY; StreetArtNews]