Asteroid Mining w/Robotic 3D Printers

Asteroids contain billions of dollars worth of material us humans can use on earth. But, how do we get it? Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources are two companies investing in technology designed to mine near earth asteroids and help us better understand the Universe we live in.

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and so there's going to be a
near-earth asteroid fly by this Friday
right now imagine if we were to you
shoot
a a a capsule out Wally sized
bro by fifty five-pound bill electronic
by
out to the asteroid and it were to
attach itself
and then follow the
I asteroid out into the asteroid belt
other I'm sorry my knee
there are mine it will it will be mine
the Astra and then it will also
are have a 3d printer install on it
which will print other fireflies that
will then release
to other asteroids where they can then
sample up all samples from those
asteroids
that is the ultimate goal a deep space
you just imagine
executive just imagine you know being
able to you go you with PD a pager and
I unit learn about a certain asteroid
with
you know you don't just know the
distance to earth or its worried you
know
what it's made of physical me you know
it's nice sister asteroid maybe or
however and oh by the way you can watch
a live camera feed
that the Firefly robot has installed on
that asteroid and left their
have before it moved on now this sounds
very planned sky
but deep space industries and its
chairman
by retirements in is basically saying
that
they're going to launch the first one in
the next Lee to three years
you about seventy pounds scanning go
to you object that day with nasa's help
identify
and then it's going to mines material in
bring back 72
150 pounds and again eventually
have 3d printing technology zero gravity
3d printing technology
they say the party pre-match got that
will allow it to build
pretty much like eventually
space station's just from the materials
that the mine
into this is you know just a year after
Planetary Resources you know
James Cameron was behind came out said
that they want to go in mine asteroids
but it was never with the intention of
keeping the mining there
and producing things online the ass to
read with to bring it back to earth
and bring precious metals back to earth
which is cool enough
itself but this just takes it to a whole
new level
but it's fascinating that we have
multiple companies out there saying
yet with to my knees and great day at
and Thomas made a great point
in the press release that you know he
has more
technology is iPhone or you know any
tablet then
the Apollo 13 mission had cell you know
just a couple years ago just a year ago
the Planetary Resources mindset
has involves to you know and maybe that
pusher towns and be like hey like that a
good idea but by the both companies
refrigerant piggybacking you know and
that's when those things that
whether it's public investment in ass or
private investment Houston TX basics
plan to be resource
the space industries it just its gonna
have
you know just like the politicians did
back in the day it's gonna have
long-term amazing benefits to the rest
the society