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"Google CEO Larry Page and the company's executive chairman Eric Schmidt have joined forces with Avatar director James Cameron for a space venture that will possibly involve mining asteroids.\nThe venture, Planetary Resources Inc., plans to \"overlay two critical sectors \u2014 space exploration and natural resources \u2014 to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP\" and \"help ensure humanity's prosperity,\" according to a press release issued by the company this week. More details will be forthcoming when the company formally unveils its plans at an event in Seattle on Tuesday. \nThe three aren't the only ones involved. Planetary Resources was co-founded by former NASA Mars Mission Manager Eric Anderson and Peter Diamandis, the commercial space entrepreneur. Charles Simonyi, a former top executive at Microsoft, and K. Ram Shriram, a Google director, are also backing the company. Ross Perot Jr., son of billionaire H. Ross Perot, is also a backer.\nFor Cameron, the venture may be a case of life imitating art: His 2010 blockbuster Avatar's plot involved mining resources on alien planets.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, adventtr"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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