This is the last week of the fun-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-world. I'm John Bachelor. Behind the Black.

This is the last week of the fundraising for her happy birthday Bob Zimmerman who keeps the website behind the black.

Your donations, your subscriptions most generous because we're going space engineering.

This is where the money is.

This is monetizing low-Earth orbit and beyond.

What's beyond that? Asteroids.

Bob, a very good evening to you.

Asteroid monetization.

There have been dreams, but we're looking right now at a new document that you explicate. What is it? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Yes, I got in the mail yesterday a new white paper report from a think tank, which was analyzing

asteroid mining potential.

And it had a graph that I thought was very telling and I

wanted to post that graph and describe what I think the potential is because even

though asteroid mining is still in the future and for future in fact not immediate future and it

probably will initially mostly serve as resources to the early colonies in space.

Eventually there's going to be an infrastructure

strong enough to get those resources back to Earth.

And this graph in this paper tells us the value of that

material and so I posted this graph on behind the black what it what's

significant about it is it focused on the metallic

asteroid these are the asteroids that are not made of the original primeval material of the solar system

that's mostly carbon and soot

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