Planetary Resources – Mining Asteroids for Earth-bound Materials & Materials Use In Space
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
as well as people living on Earth.
Chris Lewicki, CEO Planetary Resources, talks about space mining and how minerals and other natural resources could be mined on asteroids, from comets, and perhaps other heavenly bodies.
Chris explains how mining is performed by docking with an asteroid (you can't land on them because they don't have enough gravity, typically).
The question of: "Who owns what's mined in space and why haven't we mined the moon yet?" is also discussed.
Has truly 'alien material' been found that has never been seen on earth?
Chris explains the ways in which technology is helping the space exploration and the future of space mining.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.9 | Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost here, around the corner |
| 0:31.3 | technology. |
| 0:32.3 | And I have Chris Lewicki, CEO and Chief Asteroid Min miner at Planetary Resources. |
| 0:38.5 | How you doing, Chris? |
| 0:39.7 | Richard, I'm doing great. |
| 0:41.2 | Excited to be on the podcast with you and talk about all the ways that future tech is actually enabling the bold new world of mining in space. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, this is a really unusual thing I've heard first from Peter Diamandis, you know, |
| 0:59.2 | quite a while ago. |
| 1:00.2 | But, so your premise is... |
| 1:02.0 | And Peter is a co-founder of mine in the company. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:06.9 | So the premise is to mine, actually mine asteroids for materials to bring back to Earth and use? |
| 1:14.0 | Almost. Really where it starts is recovering and using materials in space so that we don't have to bring them with us. |
| 1:23.9 | For all the history of space exploration, you know, you put the astronauts in the gigantic rocket and everything they would ever need for the entire trip they had to pack with them. |
| 1:32.8 | So it was like really complicated camping. |
| 1:36.6 | And as we see folks like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson and others working to get access to space, |
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