This is an example of "old men [who] plant trees whose shade may never cover them" that simply melts my heart.

awesome discussion. Thanks!

OMG, is there something that Dr. Silk doesn’t know about the universe as we currently know it. I wish all interviewees had the same clarity of him.

I wonder if Robert Zubrin could convince him on the gateway/tollbooth question.

This is the most exciting episode I've listened to yet. Lets build that telescope!

Do we have the capability to conduct any type of operations in the environment that is. ( The Dark Side Of The Moon)?

Loved this one, resource exploitation aside The science and projects discussed were all so tangible

@evcoproductions

11 ай бұрын

(Not to say I don't love the eps on high concepts of physics)

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

“resource exploitation aside” you act like it’s inherently immoral lol

Our moon's about to have its own satellites. Like a gangster's chain that wears itself.

@HarryNicNicholas

11 ай бұрын

have you counted how many circle earth? musk has been putting them up 50 at a time...

@morgengabe1

11 ай бұрын

@@HarryNicNicholas no, not much of an astronomy buff personally. But I've heard about that and seen some utterly ruined graphs due to it. I just don't get why he would do it like that? Why not coordinate so that you aren't sabotaging other people's work?

😮 The conscious observer effect debunks the big bang theory whereas String theory and Fine-tuning prove the holodeck theory.. which is good news ultimately as holodeck scenarios are potentially eternal unlike true big bang universes which are not.. but this means that the sky is a projected image and the universe doesn't actually exist in reality. We are real though. Please discuss 🙂

Not counting the human cost of undertaking such a project

SEAN: HAS THE DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT BEEN DONE IN EMPTY SPACE? ( outside the ISS?)

Fun idea!

Again moon. 2moon?🌑

Fun fact, If the moon was pure gold it still wouldn't be profitable to mine it and get the gold back to earth.

@GeoffreyCairney

10 ай бұрын

Fun fact, nobody is proposing to mine the moon for gold and to bring moon mined gold to the Earth for sale.

Pappaji. U.go moon and place

imo, Silk should be the first one to go since this was his idea, lol

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

Why y’all so mad? lol

How do we calculate the "Equal" distribution of mineral rights to the moon, Mars, asteroids and so on? Or will it be the same as the Americas ? (show up with bigger guns or superior technology ... " I got Dibs" ?

@EinsteinsHair

11 ай бұрын

I think it is less like the Americas and more like the oceans. There is not an "equal" distribution of fish, but you try to come up with international agreements to limit overfishing. As he says near the end, there are a finite number of good, dark craters for telescopes. If China was already building a telescope in one then Europe would have to pick a different one. There is already a Moon Treaty and an Outer Space Treaty to limit militarization and claiming anything as national territory. Most countries are not parties to these treaties. But there should not be guns up there in the near term. So, if the US was angry with China, and couldn't resolve it, then they would decide to hold "routine" naval exercises uncomfortably close to China.

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

Why should there be equal distribution rights? Only China and the US are seriously funding this endeavor. Your ‘concerns’ are so telling and a direct reflection of your politics.

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

@@EinsteinsHairyou think the US would hold US Navy exercises in China’s periphery because of some random claim they didn’t like of China’s on the moon? Bizarre

@EinsteinsHair

9 ай бұрын

@@coreyleander7911 I don't think either country cares about astronomy that much. I was hoping to walk the poster back from the idea that there would be military bases on the moon. Any conflict would primarily be on Earth. For example, if fusion power becomes reality, and one country began stripping the visible side of the moon for Helium-3, then the other party would go through other options: strongly worded diplomacy, taxes on the other's goods, even flexing military muscle, before they got to the point of launching a missile to blow up the mining operation. Guns on the moon would not be the first resort, as the poster seemed to be thinking.

I hate the term" we can exploit the moon". Have we not learned enough about the dangers of explotations of resources and environments yet?

@koolguy728

11 ай бұрын

The moon is a lifeless rock with no atmosphere. It has no "environment" to mess up.

@diamon999

11 ай бұрын

@@koolguy728 No atmosphere != no environment. Yeah, lets just blast our way through our neighbourhood devouring everything in our path in the name of progress, right?

@Lucas43434

11 ай бұрын

There are different kinds of conservationists. Those who care about the harm done to people and living beings by damaging their environment, those who primarily want to conserve natural beauty for aesthetic reasons, and those who have some kind of spiritual belief that nature itself is living and conscious with wants and needs more important than those of people and animals.

@pansepot1490

11 ай бұрын

Don’t worry, we ain’t going to “exploit” the moon any time soon. Old fart (meant with affection) interviewed on the podcast is a prime example of how expertise in one field doesn’t translate into expertise in other fields however adjacent. He speaks extremely confidently, and mostly wrongly, about mining, engineering, aerospace industry, AI, economics, etc. presenting everything as if it were far easier, cheaper and economically viable than it actually is. Actual experts in those fields say otherwise.

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

What is wrong with you people? I’m so desperate to know. It’s hard to understand why you people cannot think without your political priors blinding you entirely.

This one was particularly “entertaining if not cringe worthy”!!

I thought there were "Laws" or Agreements to prevent Human alteration of possible ecosystems. Just because we haven't detected life in some places doesn't mean it isn't there.

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

So the moon has an ecosystem? So many left wingers in the replies inherently mad at getting resources from the moon. Bizarre stuff

There's no profit in researching in Antarctica.... It's all cost ... Shockingly people are nicer to each other when their life depends on it. To an extent.

Please people don't take away the 1 thing that is beautiful and free for all. The ability to step out at night and just look up. Planes and satellites have continuously done this for the last 20 years ...

Otherwise they would have to ship building materials, costing more $.

I was excited that I thought I would hear from a real expert about why the Moon would be a good place to do astronomy. There was indeed some of that, but wrapped in too much Artemis Project spin and recycled manned space flight talking points. What I learned, I think, is that the radio astronomers need to hurry and get a large all-robotic radio telescope set up and observing on the lunar far side while the level of human-generated radio noise there is still almost zero. Fortunately the human trashing of the Moon will take years, probably decades, longer than the Artemis lobby likes to pretend.

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

What is there on the moon to trash? These comments under this video are absolutely insane psychopathy

I've been smoking but, Our Plan... Is to strip mine the moon... Won't this significantly alter the (Tides) on Earth? Alter the trajectory of the moon?

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

Man, let that left wing ideology shine as bright as you can, why dontcha? You need to do the work and show that we’re taking a significant enough amount of mass from the Moon in the process of “strip” mining as you call it…

Here we come. I feel sorry for the moon. I wonder when the first moon war will happen. Prbly sooner then later

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

Y’all are insane. Just so many political priors you can’t even think straight

First!

Why no mention of whales when talking about resources on the moon?

can't wait to see how elon's ego reacts to learning of this research.

So, we don't like that kids are mining the resources needed to make our smart phones affordable... and our solution is to get them from the Moon instead. Sounds about right.

@koolguy728

11 ай бұрын

In the long term, yes. There are many resources that are extremely rare and therefore expensive on Earth but that are extremely plentiful and accessible on the Moon.

@mrglassscience

11 ай бұрын

@@koolguy728 Good, we agree. We are only motivated by consumption.

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

@@mrglasssciencewhy are you left wingers so psychotic? I’m desperate to know. You act like consumption is some inherent negative of industry or capitalism or something. Humans by definition consume resources to stay alive. Deal with it

It'll be "cheaper" or easier to launch anything from Lunar gravity..... The energy needed for significant cargo to escape Earth's gravity is expensive . This is why they want to mine on the moon. To build using local resources .

So... I'm not at all in favor of "Mining" the moon. Is there any chance we ,as a species... Can avoid exploiting every available object for $... The Fn Moon... Really? I don't think I could handle seeing lights on the moon Most nights.

@coreyleander7911

9 ай бұрын

How many comments are you going to make under this video from your far left politics? It’s interesting that you think it’s just fine that we run out of rare earths and other resources on Earth, and equate getting more with profit only.