MOON MINING AND ASTEROID WEALTH: The Next Step in Space Exploration | WELT SpaceTime

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Publicado 2024-03-31
In their insatiable quest for resources, humans are now also looking to space. The Moon as a mineral paradise? Metal asteroids promising immense wealth? While a gold rush in space remains purely utopian for now, if humanity intends to move deeper into space, it will rely on local resources. Therefore, all spacefaring nations are actively working on concepts and technologies to enable the extraction and use of space resources.

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  • @alextownsend8624
    Yessss I love spacetime! I WISH I HAD THIS GUY FOR A TEACHER. So glad they are making more episodes!
  • @xelusprime
    Man I love space documentaries! Keep them coming Welt, keep them coming.
  • @apricotcomputers3943
    in this future, the benefit and enhancement of a mankind will be the objective. Not profit for a privileged few at the expense of the 99% it's not metal that gives us value. it's we, who give the metal it's value. we need to give value to the children in need starving around our world
  • @RomoRooster
    I think AI robots will be the key to space mining.
  • @classic_sci_fi
    Harvesting He3 will be a huge mess and a waste of time. Do we want to strip mine the entire surface of the moon for piddling amounts of He3 or harvest Thorium which is there in abundance? Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors running super-cooled CO2 turbines are what is needed for an true industrial base. It takes a lot of energy to separate metals from oxide minerals. Oxygen can be used for life support, chemistry, and as propellant for both chemical and plasma drives.Metals may be alloyed and fabricated into parts for habitat, processing plants, or spacecraft. Materials will be used for building on the Moon and in space with very little going back to the Earth's surface.
  • @farhanaf832
    We can help scientists by processing data from boinc distributed computing software ♥️
  • @af0ulwind115
    I have all props for anyone wanting to harvest recourses from asteroids, however I highly question the validity and stability of mining the moon... First off modern conventional sciences explanation of gravity and how the moon I held in orbit would lead to the idea that mining the moon would cause it to either grow further from earth or get closer to it, due to changes in mass and quantities of differing minerals and ores that react in differing ways with the attractions of masses.
  • @markenclarde3348
    I think its been done before our civilization rose up sometime in the past and possibly is still a hub for anamolus activity that we have yet to understand and identify..but ...for our desire to capitalize these resources for the simple act of capital gain will cause turbulence in countries that really need to unite under one brand .
  • @fglatzel
    Mining gold on the Moon and importing it in large quantities to Earth is a great idea. Especially, once the Gold price is that of stainless Steel, thousands will lose their life savings.:face-purple-crying:
  • @andrelaframboise3495
    I’m a surface exploration driller for planet earth. I volunteer for some moon exploration drilling jobs.
  • @tobyihli9470
    I’d be willing to bet that at least one, maybe more, wood have diamonds or gold in mind blowing amounts. Something like that would certainly be worth it.