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When I was a child I was taught in school that the great impact was 65 million years ago. Now it's 66 million. Time goes by so fast!

For many years ive watched your videos. Im sure i speak for all the viewers here when i say, Thank you for your wonferful work!! Very insightful, thought provoking and filled with intersting facts. Look forward to the next instalment!!

"Turns out that smug metal bastard was lying to us." Much like chat gpt you have to ask if they are sure 😅

Of all the sci fi movies over the years that have predicted the future, who would've thought that Armageddon would be potentially the most accurate.

I absolutly love this channel, i would support it if I could, Im a 70 yo pensioner. Have followed for a long time. Oh that I could be alive in the 21st century, The things you people will see I envy you so much. Live long and prosper.

“Mine it at our leisure” is something no miner or astronaut has ever said 😅

I've heard of that guy Aster Roids before. I'm more intimately familiar with his sister Hemma though

So glad you promoted Star Trek Fleet Command. My friend is heavily into Star Trek. So much so that he has 3 ears. A right ear, a left ear and a final front ear

Many of these resources are only valuable because they are scarce. If we suddenly gained a huge supply of gold we wouldn’t suddenly be rich. Gold would just lose all of its value.

I've been hearing about resources running out my entire life, yet we keep finding more of what we currently need and new uses for stuff we never used before.

"Im king Charles, look at my drip"....😂 That freaking Charles is at it again.

Well, if I went back in time to my grandmother’s day back in 1918 and told her everyone in the future has a device that can communicate with anyone in the world and also gave access to almost all the information and research in human history, and it’s no bigger than a wallet, she’d laugh me off as a looney, yet here we are!

Conclusion: people will try to do anything except learn to use local resources sustainably.

"Money doesn't talk, it swears." Bob Dylan - 'It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

Thanks from the bottom of my heart, your videos are a good source of information, they are interesting and they make me feel bloody good for some reason

Seeing as how the moon has millions of asteroids laying around a moon base would be the most logical starting point. don't even have to chase them. could be entire gold boulders there. Eventually the materials for space travel will need to be mined in space and processed on the moon anyways. No atmosphere to cause problems.

A space construction yard for ships would be start.

A good way to do this, would be small bots, even nano bots. They land on the asteroid and make larger bots and so on. Then they jettison the stuff back to us. Maybe the main craft that drops them is a huge solar cell to start. If they ever get pure electrical propulsion down they can slow and stear them maybe. Park them nearer. Or 6-8 crafts park and lock on an object and slow it and bring it closer.

The really limited resource is habitable space. That Davida asteroide contains enough material for several Earth surface equivalents of O'Neil cylinders.

mining anything, off planet, would introduce an economic nightmare

been watching Arran for years and bro really don’t miss edit: King Charles type beat goes hard

A fascinating perspective on the role of asteroids in our existence and the potential they hold for our future. Your analysis of asteroid mining and its challenges is extremely detailed, and the concept of using this potential resource to aid our ambitions of space colonization is mind-boggling.

Getting stuff up to space is one of the main issues. Solving that thing is the very first step in our journey to conquer space. We came up with some pretty decent ideas already, fe a space catapult here and around the Moon with a moon base. That way our journeys in our solar system could be so much easier.

Really enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing.

Imagine going to eat and sending an astroid into another country.. only for it to touchdown and be made completely of unrainium and plutonium 😳

3:24 So... eastern europe, about in 1996 - a nice summer morning, suddenly you wake with a pulse of fear.. "WOW! I was so close to oversleeping..." its 5 AM and this time you're going with grandpa and grandma to the corn fields to "whack the weeds" as you might say, and maintain the field. It's a backbreaking manual labor!(well at least for them it was...) We get to the field early and prep for a light breakfast, granny woke up early to prepare it all. As I'm gorging on my granny's milinki with a side of apricot nectar(both homemade...) I notice other people around us enjoying breakfast as well. Then every group(bout 20 or 30 depending on the day, basically almost the whole village) gradually begins to work their land. We call this land "bostan" and every village had one. Every couple of years they move it in order to keep the soil more rich and not deplete the nutrients with continuous strain through growing the same culture there(they rotated mixed bostans with single culture ones). I was a kid back then, no more than 10 years old, but believe me when i tell you.. best.. damn.. time!!!

Thanks for the refreshing stories you provide. Very interesting and entertaining.

Thoughty2, have you ever thought about covering the insane forming of the banana republics in South America

Ice will likely be the first thing mined. H + O for rocket fuel. Water to drink and O2 to breath.

If the metals are pulled into the Earths core then wouldn't Lava contain large amounts of these elements?

I've heard that space elevators were going to be a thing in the near future, I can't even get my head around that how would that even work? I'm going to have to Google that lmao I love your channel, you bring up the most interesting topics❤

What about crashing NEOs into Mars? Surely mining them there would be a lot easier than trying to mine them with little to no gravity?

"I'm king Charles, look at my drip" 😅

they say water on Earth came from asteroids, so perhaps they're looking for a fresh source of water to meet their requirements.. You know, after they scorch the Earth or let loose a super big of some sort...

Thanks for recognizing mushroom eaters as being ahead of the curve on asteroid mining. Interestingly, the mushrooms show no attraction to Mars at all.

⚠ What's with the click bait-y title??

Every time something like this is discusses, there's one thing that comes to mind. Mining asteroids and bringing the material back to earth would increase the planets mass, how much much mass would have to be added before we would start having noticeable differences in earths orbit?

Great episode as always!¡ Thanks very much!!

Great episode, very informative and captivating!

Here before the assbots!!!😂😂😂😂

How has this video got anything to do with the current title: ‘Billionaires are Secretly Bringing Asteroids to Earth and We Don’t Know Why’? I have seen and enjoyed a lot of your videos but this is just clickbait. Sorry.

That book The Sparrow by Mary Doris Russell (a fucking AMAZING speculative fiction, one of my favorites) introduced me to the idea of using asteroids for space travel by creating a livable space on the asteroid and burning the fuel contained within. So the asteroid is the ship as well as the fuel. I think that’s an amazing concept!

Thoughty you're awesome ive been sub to you for a few years now

Click bate ,bad title

Great vid as allways. Ty T2 The sound track at the end sounds amazing, can I ask what it's called ?

Thx entertaining and informative.

I just love your humor!!!! Thanks for doing what you do.

It’s sad that everything related to tech is now directly related to greed

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My grandparents on my biological mother's side own a huge farm in Minnesota. I remember having corn cob fights. Going out to the milk tank in the morning to get fresh milk for the day. It's where I found that freshly cut oaks taste like Quaker Oats. My uncle big John got his hand cut up in a combine. My grandparents on my biological fathers side owned an 80 acre cattle farm in Foyil, Oklahoma. If we got in trouble. We were sent to the farm to work.

Amazing how some of us think of these "solutions" instead of first controlling ourselves here on the planet we inhabit.

Hey Thoughty2 thank you!

Keep the good work

Before we run out of rare metals, either we need to figure out how to reuse them or make everything out of carbon chains. We waste energy and minerals at an alarming rate.

The last part of the video basically described the setting of The Expanse.

Hey Thoughty2 you are 2Thoughty 🙂, just been watching another vid on asteroid hitting the Earth and causing snowball earth

Thank you :) We love you!

need a time dilation device and slow time down in a subspace bubble big enough to encompass the mining operation and asteroid. that way you dont have to "catch" one that passes by and/or alter its orbit. but of course would need people without ties to family and friends to work up there cause time would still pass normally outside the bubble. i think this tech would be more cost effective. but i could be wrong

Thank you! This was very interesting and answered a lot of questions for me.

Thanks for the video, man, been watching your videos for years, appreciate it

What if we crash a small asteroid into the Moon? We could simply pick up the rubble, transport it back to earth, and distribute it among humanity evenly (or make a few billionaires into quadrillionaires...).

Feeding the algo demons.. nom nom. Thanks for being british asmr learning channel. Much appreciate 🙏 🙌

Very informative video. Thank You.

Ok,. Now I think I've seen this somewhere... The USG Ishimura!!! If not asteroid mining, it's Planet Cracking. Oh the possibilities!?

Have seen so many of your videos lately, that i read the title in your voice. Great video!

@11:35 I was so ready for a calculation breakdown of which kinds of cheese would be profitable.

thank you thoughty2 for all the content, also love the channel and the videos keep up the grind

"Humans are complex creatures." Subjective and debatable I counter that opinion with two words, 'Social Media'. Another drain on resources.

I swear he is saying "Hey, 42 here"

Great video, young man. This is a subject that needs a lot of consideration. We either have to get serious about recycling the world over, or we are going to choose between becoming technically impoverished or leaving it to a very few rich or more innovative countries/multi-billionaires to go scraping at a few asteroids (which brings up the matter of expense and possibly ownership rights). It's my belief that we will start by mining asteroids to bring only the most valuable resources back to Earth. But once the 'wasteful' era of that particular enterprise is over and done with (since humans 'unfailingly' manage to mine for one substance, throwing aside another half dozen substances that become useful in later years. Think early days of oil extraction - and the careless way 'gas' was burned off, because it was considered a waste product at the time), only then will asteroids be mined more sensibly, to take advantage of all possible resources. At that time, I think the probability of occupying other planets like Mars will escalate, as it will be more sensible to bring resources 'there' for refinement, rather than doing that job on Earth and further polluting the atmosphete, etc.

Also, you will need people to work in those mines. It would definitely be a struggle to find people that are capable of doing that

How much you wanna bet that when asteroid mining starts happening somebody's gonna fuck up and crash one of these big bastards right into terra firma?

Good ending😂 Words of wisdom, for sure!

Loved the video!!

A drill can be mounted to the surface it's drilling. A 4 year round trip isn't bad for a 27 quintillion dollar payday. This video has actually convinced me of the feasibility of asteroid mining.

Interesting and satisfying as always... ❤

We need more spooky stuff from thoughty2

Thanks for specifying "non-avian" dinosaurs. Whenever I hear someone saying "the extinction of the dinosaurs" without such a specification I have an uncontrollable urge to shout "they're not all extinct!!"

Hopefully relatively soon we will be able to transform things from the atomic level or thereabouts and stretch out our resources to seemingly unlimited supply. Like- Hey Siri, build me a castle- Drones and robots come in and turn dirt into an amazing castle. Think of how we can expand all the materials of entire cities. All of that concrete, steel, glass, etc. generative design, stronger structures than we can imagine, new materials, cities on top of cities, underground and in the air, on water. Then we harvest the power of the sun, then other stars, the galaxy, other galaxies. The future will be amazing!

Well, I know someone who have been into asteroid mining. It was not easy, but he (with the team) they did land (remote controlled robotics) and mine a bit.

This is very interesting.You explained perfectly.Thanks😊

THANK YOU

I always enjoy your videos in late evenings, when it's just me and my thoughts. Deep subjects presented in a very logical, fun, and entertaining style. Hope you will grow your audience tenfold+. And thank you as well!

9:16 C3PO was in a galaxy far far away. Things were different there ;)

Enjoyed the graphics.

I can already see it: They figure out how to tether an asteroid 300 km long, slow it down…and immediately change its trajectory to straight for Earth. So glad I don’t have children so I don’t have to worry about any of this. Selfish, I know, but we all make sacrifices.

Key advantage of orbital processing and asteroid mining is this: you don't care about pollution, radiation or anything of the sort. And the minerals, metals and materials produced are in orbit, ready to be used manufacturing ships that won't need fuel to leave earth's surface.

Here's one way the human cost can be removed almost entirely, aside from any actual trained astronauts needed for certain roles. Have mining drones do the majority of the work of the extraction and transportation to a mothership designed to refine and manufacture on site. The pilots of the drones are stationed on earth, using a specialized network to reduce latency times down to acceptable enough levels to do the job. The only requirements to operate would be a controller and laptop capable of playing the feed sent to the screen. This would make it so that basically anyone can make money operating the drones as they see fit and/or are capable of operating. So if you can operate 12 drones on your own successfully, then you are free to do so, with some limitations put in place for fairness. This makes it so that the only human cost is the astronauts put in space to do the tasks that require the human touch out in space. Anything that can be automated via robotics is. Of course this all still costs a lot of money too, but comparatively it should be less than trying to house thousands if not possibly millions of humans in space. And the materials for the drones could be harvested on-site as well or nearby to manufacture more when needed due to malfunction/destruction via accidents. (Which is once again another saving grace of using remote operation. Less human cost once again.) It would probably ideally be used best in conjunction with parking said asteroid in the moons orbit, but I have some issues with that in regards to possible sudden rouge asteroids near earth. Still, that would probably be the best scenario for this use case, since it would allow for the network to be as short as distance as the moon, which should make connections 'possible', though maybe not preferable in speed/latency. But again, so long as the pilot can operate without issue, it should be fine until better technology reduces that problem. AI could also be used in the drones to automate them, but this may be one of those things where the human touch is still preferred for safety reasons in case of AI malfunction. Thus the remote operators would still be employed as a fail safe at the very least. This would essentially create a ... near infinite... job market, where the company ultimately profits more the more they can diversify their asteroid holdings for constant extraction. Obviously supply and demand must be obeyed, but ultimately so long as the demand eats the supply fast enough, most of this problem will be averted on its own. I.E. The mothership using its own collected materials to make more drones to collect more materials. The excess of this is what is sold instead as an artificial cap and trade system of sorts, where the main function of the operation is to keep the operation in continuation with excess going towards saleable product for proceeds to allow continued funding of the operation. If one is exceeding the other, rebalance and continue forward. And as for continuing forward: Eventually deep space mining ships will be required, where crew will be stationed as well even if they continue remote operation from the ship. At that point nodes would be set up along the way to allow for earth based miners to continue operation as well, but with added latency per node hop. These ventures would likely be solely sent only for the rarest materials that we just can't find elsewhere. So they would be quite rare operations.

Hollywood warned us about this on Don't Look Up

I thought (due to isotope analysis) that it was discovered several years ago that the water on earth did NOT originate from an extraterrestrial source according to all of the meteors / comets we’ve studied

Thank you... ❤

What about a massive net connected to multiple units with thrusters, the net initially becomes slack on contact but applies counter resistance slowly to slow down the inertia.. thrusters apply thrust in opposing direction based of trajectory impact into the net. Bring the rock to the nearest unit for mining.. Secondary note: Massive net is already going at speeds comparable to the expected speed of asteroid, this way the difference in speed is very minuscule and thus easier to mitigate the impact difference Also this brings in to mind, aliens would never need to harvest our planet if our most valuable resources are plenty more abundant in asteroids…

Why not push a NEO into the moon, and then mine the crash site on the moon? The impact should help crack them open, and the moon should also have enough gravity to build drills on. It seems way more practical than anything else. It would still be a massive undertaking, but it’s a lot more doable.

This reminds me of the book, "The Singularity Trap". It's a decent read that focuses on a guy who picks up astroid mining.

The value is not quite accurate in the sense that increased quantiy of material availble to the market will reduce its value. But astronomical value beyond comprehension nontheless. Great video as always.

Great vid

While I love the forward thinking idea of colonizing other worlds and mining in space. These plans should continue at a very low priority. The mining on our planet has improved. Always more room for that to continue. While the materials used in batteries and other tech are always changing too. At the risk of the beating of a dead equine. I hear these plans and love the ideas but under the circumstances we are way too fast at throwing money, public or private. While not working on the broken health care issues and abused programs that we see increasing. This leaves people out of luck that really need and deserve help. Just a tip of example.There is a bubble with this. That being said. The far off day of colonizing another planet anytime in the somewhat near future could be tantamount to moving from Cleveland to Detroit.

You're just the best!! I love your videos. You remind me of Isaac Asimov and the articles he wrote to let common people know and understand science. This is amazing and you are amazing!

Thank you Thoughty2 You are in my top ten to watch! You Rock! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉