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Scientist.Passage 2 isfrom the editors of New Scientist,\"Taming the FinalFrontier.\"◎2013 by New Scientist.  \nPassage 1  \nFollow the money and you will end up in space.That's the message from a first-of-its-kind forum onmining beyond Earth.  \nLine Convened in Sydney by the Australian Centre for5 Space Engineering Research,the event broughttogether mining companies,robotics experts,lunarscientists,and government agencies that are allworking to make space mininga reality.  \nThe forum comes hot on the heels of the  \n102012 unveiling of two private asteroid-mining firms.Planetary Resources of Washington says it willlaunch its first prospecting telescopes in two years,while Deep Space Industries of Virginia hopes to beharvesting metals from asteroids by 2020.Another  \n15 commercial venture that sprung up in 2012,Golden Spike of Colorado,will be offering trips tothe moon,including to potential lunar miners.  \nWithin a few decades,these firms may bemeeting earthly demands for precious metals,such as20 platinum and gold,and the rare earth elements vital  \nfor personal electronics,such as yttrium andlanthanum.But like the gold rush pioneers whotransformed the western United States,the first spaceminers won't just enrich themselves.They also hope  \n25 to build an off-planet economy free of any bondswith Earth,in which the materials extracted andprocessed from the moon and asteroids are deliveredfor space-based projects.  \nIn this scenario,water mined from other  \n30 worlds could become the most desired commodity.\"In the desert,what's worth more:a kilogram of goldor a kilogram of water?\"asks Kris Zacny ofHoneyBee Robotics in New York.\"Gold is useless.Water will let you live.\"  \n35 Water ice from the moon's poles could be sent toastronauts on the International Space Station fordrinking or as a radiation shield.Splitting water intooxygen and hydrogen makes spacecraft fuel,soice-rich asteroids could become interplanetary40 refuelling stations.  \nCompanies are eyeing the iron,silicon,andaluminium in lunar soil and asteroids,which couldbe used in 3D printers to make spare parts ormachinery.Others want to turn space dirt into45 concrete for landing pads,shelters,and roads.  \nPassage 2  \nThe motivation for deep-space travel is shiftingfrom discovery to economics.The past year has seena flurry of proposals aimed at bringing celestial richesdown to Earth.No doubt this will make a few50 billionaires even wealthier,but we all stand to gain:the mineral bounty and spin-off technologies couldenrich us all  \nBut before the miners start firing up their rockets,we should pause for thought.At first glance,space55 mining seems to sidestep most environmentalconcerns:there is(probably!)no life on asteroids,and thus no habitats to trash.But its consequences—both here on Earth and in space—merit carefulconsideration.  \n60 Part of this is about principles.Some will arguethat space's “magnificent desolation\"is not ours todespoil,just as they argue that our own planet's polesshould remain pristine.Others will suggest thatglutting ourselves on space's riches is not an  \n65 acceptable alternative to developing more sustainableways of earthly life.  \nHistory suggests that those will be hard lines tohold,and it may be difficult to persuade the publicthat such barren environments are worth preserving.  \n70 After all,they exist in vast abundance,and evenfewer people will experience them than have walkedthrough Antarctica's icy landscapes.  \nThere's also the emerging off-world economy toconsider.The resources that are valuable in orbit and75 beyond may be very different to those we prize onEarth.Questions of their stewardship have barelybeen broached-and the relevant legal and regulatoryframework is fragmentary,to put it mildly.Space miners,like their earthly counterparts,are  \n80 often reluctant to engage with","cbCaicKdM5fm2WHw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicKdM5fm2WHw","pdf",344583,"English","# SAT Reading Test 5\n## Questions 42-52 Based 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