How Asteroid Mining Could Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2011

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There may be trillions of dollars' worth of resources in asteroids, and some scientists believe we could mine nearby asteroids. Join Josh and Chuck as they explore how asteroid mining might work (and why we haven't done it yet).

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0:45.7	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:48.2	This is Josh Clark.
0:50.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:54.5	What?
0:55.5	I got the cheek weapon just under the wire on that one.
0:58.6	Have you done that every time lately?
1:01.0	I've been so harried and frazzled and Pittsburgh forgotten.
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1:09.0	Second thing is we recorded some little promos a few minutes ago and you called me Chad.
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