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Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, I'm an astrophysicist

with the American Museum of Natural History, where I also serve as the Frederick P. Rose

director of the Hayden Planetarium.

My co-host this week is the one, the only check-nice.

Yes, for now, I plan on cloning myself.

Okay, that'd be good, then you can sleep and work at the same time.

I didn't even think of that.

You're smart.

You know what this show, it's all about asteroid mining.

Awesome.

It is.

And so is.

I'm saying it's awesome, but what exactly is asteroid mining?

Well, we can like early get to our clip because I recently interviewed Peter Diamondis.

And I don't know if you know his name, he gets around a bit in his circles, he's deeply

known in his circles.

He's the founder of the X Prize, which are public competitions, which challenges the world

to see if they can come up with technological innovations that you might have thought were

out of reach.

But if you put a fat billfold in front of him, it's in reach.

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