MOON MINING AND ASTEROID WEALTH: The Next Step in Space Exploration | WELT SpaceTime

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In their insatiable quest for resources, humans are now also looking to space. The Moon as a mineral paradise? Metal asteroids promising immense wealth? While a gold rush in space remains purely utopian for now, if humanity intends to move deeper into space, it will rely on local resources. Therefore, all spacefaring nations are actively working on concepts and technologies to enable the extraction and use of space resources.
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  • @alextownsend8624
    @alextownsend8624Ай бұрын

    Yessss I love spacetime! I WISH I HAD THIS GUY FOR A TEACHER. So glad they are making more episodes!

  • @alexgrandino8777

    @alexgrandino8777

    15 күн бұрын

    Hi. I share your enthusiasm about everything concerning space.

  • @xelusprime
    @xelusprimeАй бұрын

    Man I love space documentaries! Keep them coming Welt, keep them coming.

  • @tonyportcullis488
    @tonyportcullis488Ай бұрын

    WELT + Space = Awesome❤

  • @clarencehopkins7832
    @clarencehopkins7832Ай бұрын

    Excellent stuff bro, get this done.

  • @iainpaton1865
    @iainpaton1865Ай бұрын

    Very interesting video 😊

  • @apricotcomputers3943
    @apricotcomputers394329 күн бұрын

    in this future, the benefit and enhancement of a mankind will be the objective. Not profit for a privileged few at the expense of the 99% it's not metal that gives us value. it's we, who give the metal it's value. we need to give value to the children in need starving around our world

  • @markenclarde3348
    @markenclarde334812 күн бұрын

    I think its been done before our civilization rose up sometime in the past and possibly is still a hub for anamolus activity that we have yet to understand and identify..but ...for our desire to capitalize these resources for the simple act of capital gain will cause turbulence in countries that really need to unite under one brand .

  • @classic_sci_fi
    @classic_sci_fiАй бұрын

    Harvesting He3 will be a huge mess and a waste of time. Do we want to strip mine the entire surface of the moon for piddling amounts of He3 or harvest Thorium which is there in abundance? Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors running super-cooled CO2 turbines are what is needed for an true industrial base. It takes a lot of energy to separate metals from oxide minerals. Oxygen can be used for life support, chemistry, and as propellant for both chemical and plasma drives.Metals may be alloyed and fabricated into parts for habitat, processing plants, or spacecraft. Materials will be used for building on the Moon and in space with very little going back to the Earth's surface.

  • @ShawnRitch

    @ShawnRitch

    Ай бұрын

    Thorium is the way to go. I can't believe we aren't already using it here on earth.

  • @classic_sci_fi

    @classic_sci_fi

    Ай бұрын

    @@ShawnRitch The word is getting out, but painfully slowly...

  • @davidscarupa1429

    @davidscarupa1429

    12 күн бұрын

    Expect little, results same.

  • @RomoRooster
    @RomoRoosterАй бұрын

    I think AI robots will be the key to space mining.

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    True -- but real humans will be necessary. Humans will be to asteroid mining as humans are to earth mining. We get better power tools all the time (including earthly robotic mining today), but ultimately, we need a human or 2 on board.

  • @rajagee9695
    @rajagee9695Ай бұрын

    What's this song is?

  • @BillTaman-jq6cg
    @BillTaman-jq6cgАй бұрын

    Sign me up!

  • @belesariius
    @belesariiusАй бұрын

    our only hope for a future

  • @farhanaf832
    @farhanaf832Ай бұрын

    We can help scientists by processing data from boinc distributed computing software ♥️

  • @joejohnstonjoe4946
    @joejohnstonjoe4946Ай бұрын

    Time stamps please

  • @alexgrandino8777
    @alexgrandino877715 күн бұрын

    USA don’t want to start any mining yet. Until an other nation enter the competition. But some nations may take them by surprise.

  • @tobyihli9470
    @tobyihli9470Ай бұрын

    I’d be willing to bet that at least one, maybe more, wood have diamonds or gold in mind blowing amounts. Something like that would certainly be worth it.

  • @andrelaframboise3495
    @andrelaframboise3495Ай бұрын

    I’m a surface exploration driller for planet earth. I volunteer for some moon exploration drilling jobs.

  • @lacammaro9005

    @lacammaro9005

    21 күн бұрын

    They are forming the working group for Lunar construction comprising of Geotechnical and civil engineers

  • @southtexasprepper1837
    @southtexasprepper183723 күн бұрын

    The C-Type Asteroids are valuable! These asteroids contain large quantities of carbon molecules as well as the more usual rocks and metals. They are very similar in composition to the carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that sometimes fall on Earth. Obviously "WELT Documentary" didn't do their homework.

  • @kastenolsen9577
    @kastenolsen9577Ай бұрын

    Read the book Second Exodus Colony located at the Internet Archives.

  • @CyanBlackflower
    @CyanBlackflowerАй бұрын

    I can tell you which asteroids you can and or will want to mine. You will leave asteroid "Psycho" and thousands of other much smaller chunks of precious metals alone, and you will NOT mine them, nor will you mine the Moon without my express consent. You must have my permission to mine these, because they are mine! Mine! MINE! Ha HAA!! MINE!! Do you HEAR!! MINE!!! ALL MINE!!!! HA HA HA HA HAAA!!! MINE!! I TELL YOU!!!!

  • @samuelsm.c.8733
    @samuelsm.c.873311 күн бұрын

    Il faudra savoir d'une nouvelle technologie de combustible spatiale pour les fusées et une rentrée atmosphérique plus performant

  • @thesonuojha
    @thesonuojhaАй бұрын

    Star Trek in real life ❤

  • @pauldannelachica2388
    @pauldannelachica2388Ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Mrbfgray
    @Mrbfgray5 күн бұрын

    26:00 He's actually worried about damaging the environment on the Moon and asteroids...yeah we wouldn't want to make them uninhabitable except they already are. Ridiculous.

  • @PradyumnaGarnayak-vx8zl
    @PradyumnaGarnayak-vx8zl4 күн бұрын

    H2O means hilium and o and o two

  • @PradyumnaGarnayak-vx8zl
    @PradyumnaGarnayak-vx8zl4 күн бұрын

    Last forty years not recognize it 🤔

  • @killeresk
    @killereskАй бұрын

    Think yeah moon mining will be big soon and some will be used on the moon.

  • @vibehighest
    @vibehighest27 күн бұрын

    all the scientist are saying there isnt that much to mine on the moon but that one dude with the glasses still swears the moon is where its at hahha

  • @drrao8787
    @drrao8787Ай бұрын

    Property prices will shoot up on moon

  • @duncanbedford4765
    @duncanbedford4765Ай бұрын

    How does the ore get back to earth ?

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    easiest: ocean splash down

  • @user-wb1ks3tp7r
    @user-wb1ks3tp7rАй бұрын

    True goal of conquer the moon is terraforming him in deeper future that serve for spredding life...

  • @PeterPan-qp7vt
    @PeterPan-qp7vtАй бұрын

    Yes THERE IS LOT OF GOLD ON YHE MOON !!!

  • @williamgrant3976
    @williamgrant3976Ай бұрын

    But we WANT gold (and everything else) to be so common and plentiful that anyone can get them... We WANT to crash the gold market. We want to crash the all the markets... everywhere... That way everyone gets what they want, as much of it as they want. Why is that a bad thing? I mean except for rich people...

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    Then the rich will have to be rich because of what they create --- like the Beetles, Elvis and JK Rawlings did. Getting rich because someone can offer a luxury I want rather than because they control something I need is a very different proposition.

  • @markgerick3063
    @markgerick306319 күн бұрын

    Every crater on the Moon could contain some new element or compound deposited from far reaches of our Solar System. Talk about changing Human understanding about Matter, & its potential for new discoveries!! 🤔

  • @PradyumnaGarnayak-vx8zl
    @PradyumnaGarnayak-vx8zl4 күн бұрын

    H2 is hilium and hydrogen

  • @plasntawmlajlim9310
    @plasntawmlajlim9310Ай бұрын

    Peace to the world so these visions can be possible to achieve. 🌈🐿️🐦🦜🌳🌍🌎🌏

  • @pullshow..
    @pullshow..Ай бұрын

    Complex stuff

  • @khadijagwen
    @khadijagwenАй бұрын

    It is obvious that mankind will not do meaningful things in place until we are facing a dire threat that will end us if we don't do something.

  • @nerdvana101
    @nerdvana101Ай бұрын

    It's gonna be bigger than bitcoin mining

  • @clarencehopkins7832
    @clarencehopkins783227 күн бұрын

    Mine it bro

  • @user-em1dg3he1h
    @user-em1dg3he1h19 күн бұрын

    So let me get this right.... We go to the moon , to mine resources necessary to build a colony , where we can then manufacture the equipment to get more resources to support the colony?? Damn....some folks just gotta be busy doing something. More people should take up smoking I think.

  • @mikedagneau1315
    @mikedagneau1315Ай бұрын

    This will require building a “Very large space ship in space to take all the equipment to the planets.)just like the one on Alien. This cannot be accomplished on earth. Too much power/fuel to escape earth’s gravity.

  • @plasntawmlajlim9310
    @plasntawmlajlim9310Ай бұрын

    Space treaty probably woud not abide by Ruzzia. Ruzzia is going to claim the whole moon.🙀

  • @ramassist2
    @ramassist2Ай бұрын

    A simpler solution is to live within our means and earth resources. Even the moon would run out of supply someday

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    That will be best... until another giant rock crashes. If we have asteroid mining, we'll mine that asteroid before it crashes, and what would have been a disaster will be a blessing.

  • @JusticeAlways
    @JusticeAlwaysАй бұрын

    Mining could be done with robots.

  • @tracycarlson4941
    @tracycarlson494118 күн бұрын

    That's why the bible predicts the future and the moon will turn Red

  • @alfredmendai1367

    @alfredmendai1367

    14 күн бұрын

    You are right

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    Many volcanoes and massive fires have resulted in a red moon.

  • @PrometheusBound
    @PrometheusBoundАй бұрын

    ISRU

  • @MeganOHowe
    @MeganOHowe28 күн бұрын

    Mining would be even cheaper in space if we developed more efficient antimatter spacecraft. I have science with references how to make antimatter cheaper in the sustainability documentary Antimatter Future I released in my channel in December 2022. Not getting much attention at all but people who watch do realize the importance of the information unless they are science deniers!

  • @user-tu2kl9jl1s
    @user-tu2kl9jl1sАй бұрын

    are our resources running out???

  • @hanmasantan7282

    @hanmasantan7282

    10 күн бұрын

    No it’s just makes it easier to colonise the rest of the solar system if we can mine in outer space

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    No, but rare Earths are called that because they are rare on Earth. Those rare Earths have become essential for modern devices. Turns out may rare Earths are common on the Moon -- making them MUCH easier to mine on the moon than on the Earth. Better for our environment and our cash flow.

  • @trespire
    @trespireАй бұрын

    At the current state of space medicine, the best of us can barely survive 12 months in a weightless environment. Any teams working in zero-G / low gravity need to be fit and in excelent health for extended periods of time. Until we figure out how to survive in zero-G not much can move forward.

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    We know nothing about the the long term effect of the moon's 1/6 Earth gravity. It might be more than enough to avoid the problems of being on the space station.

  • @john404201
    @john4042014 күн бұрын

    The human race will never become Interstellar beings like Star Trek FACT.

  • @user-em1dg3he1h
    @user-em1dg3he1h19 күн бұрын

    Only a human could figure out how to put so much time and energy into a thing to get a resource found right here on earth 😂 We really are stupid.

  • @hanmasantan7282

    @hanmasantan7282

    10 күн бұрын

    How could someone on the moon use resources that are on earth if they are on the moon?

  • @user-em1dg3he1h

    @user-em1dg3he1h

    10 күн бұрын

    @@hanmasantan7282 fair enough 🤣

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    Rare Earths are very difficult to mine on Earth & cannot be mined without major environmental damage. They are readily available on the moon.

  • @gerryboudreaultboudreault2608
    @gerryboudreaultboudreault260823 күн бұрын

    Mining the moon and asteroids? Yeah, let's not stop with ruining just Earth, yuk. The minerals there would be used for lunar industries. Extra product could be returned to Earth with the help of rail guns..

  • @MachineintheMonkey
    @MachineintheMonkeyАй бұрын

    Every single ancestor that has swum, slid, crawled and walked on earth for hundreds of millions of years has looked at basically the same glorious view we have today…not to mention the moon’s life giving qualities. Now the apparently intelligent knuckle dragging species wants to destroy it. 😢

  • @trojanhorse6029

    @trojanhorse6029

    Ай бұрын

    Actually, the prehistoric moon used to be much bigger when viewed from the earth. The Moon used to be much closer, it moves away from Earth a small fraction every year. I think it was 8 times bigger in the sky at one point. 😁

  • @ryanbrown2550
    @ryanbrown2550Ай бұрын

    And you actually think that the aliens who have already established bases on the moon, are just going to allow us to start mining in their backyard?? I think not.... 💯

  • @El.presidente
    @El.presidenteАй бұрын

    Saw a version of this 50 years ago. What happened in the meantime,

  • @CausticLemons7

    @CausticLemons7

    Ай бұрын

    Politics, economics, and lots of science.

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    @@CausticLemons7 But a lot less science than if we had kept on "Spacing."

  • @dubaloo
    @dubaloo17 күн бұрын

    Enough for every human on earth to be a billionaire.. like they would ever let that happen. Greed is one of the 7 deadly sins, and all the riches of the universe won't save the sinful ones from judgment day. Just another example of the rich wanting to get richer. There's all kinds of wrong with this whole idea.

  • @9Achaemenid
    @9AchaemenidАй бұрын

    What about the Nord stream pipeline documentary?

  • @privateerburrows
    @privateerburrowsАй бұрын

    Your visions are backwards; the point of mining asteroids is NOT to bring the material back to Earth; its point is to provide material for space industries, anywhere in space they may be. Space industries can be new bases on planets, new space stations on orbit around planets, new satellites being assembled in orbit around Earth or around the Moon or Mars, or new space transportation vehicles being built on orbit around any planets. Earth has enough metal for itself; it is space industry that needs materials from space, as lifting materials from Earth is too expensive. Your animation starting at 34:45 showing capturing an asteroid and bringing it back to Earth orbit, and the discussion of comparing economics to recycling on Earth is completely besides the point. What the cost needs to be compared to is the cost of lifting the material from Earth to space. Having said that, asteroid mining will still not be economical; specially with the reduction in cost brought about by SpaceX Starship. What IS, or should be, more economical is in-situ resource utilization. Namely, mining Mars for materials needed on Mars. Mining the Moon for materials needed on the Moon. And so on.

  • @roseivory8496

    @roseivory8496

    Ай бұрын

    Interesting viewpoint. But, what if the real purpose of asteroid mining is to extract novel materials that do not exist on Earth?

  • @privateerburrows

    @privateerburrows

    Ай бұрын

    @@roseivory8496 Are you talking about Helium 3? That's thought to be common in the Moon; not in asteroids. Helium is a special case, in that Earth loses it at a high rate, making it a very rare element on our planet. But other than helium, our planet has basically all elements in the the table of elements, at least the stable isotopes thereof, assuming stable isotopes exist for a given element, which is not always true; but then an asteroid would have the same problem of this element decaying. Or are you speaking of composites? Earth is much richer in rare composites than asteroids, generally, given that here there's life, water, enzymes. Asteroids are not great at producing exotic composites; though they are good at producing exotic christals that only form in microgravity. Might be good for next century jewelry. Then again, whatever the purpose of the mining, it makes more sense to mine asteroids under the Martian surface than in zero G and zero bar, in the middle of space. Mars has millions of asteroids buried in the regolith; and each buried rock has a circle around it, so prospecting is easy.

  • @roseivory8496

    @roseivory8496

    Ай бұрын

    @@privateerburrows I am referring to what the genre of science fiction affectionately calls "unobtanium". In other words, materials that have not been discovered yet. These materials may not necessarily be metals or stones. They may include lifeforms (or their remains), viruses, chemicals, etc. Or perhaps alien technology (such as deep space probes). The official cover story fed to the public would be, for example, platinum mining. While the real reason for the asteroid mining would be kept hidden from the public for decades, if not centuries. What do you think? You are intelligent and it is a pleasure to converse with you :)

  • @roseivory8496

    @roseivory8496

    Ай бұрын

    I am referring to extracting materials not discovered yet. Not necessarily metals or gems. They could be chemicals, lifeforms (or their remains), etc. It could even be alien technology embedded within or masquerading as asteroids.

  • @roseivory8496

    @roseivory8496

    Ай бұрын

    @@privateerburrows Materials not yet discovered.

  • @PeterPan-qp7vt
    @PeterPan-qp7vtАй бұрын

    AND OTHER PLACES “”””

  • @bravofoxable
    @bravofoxableАй бұрын

    Sure, alter the moon's mass, geeeeezuz..... Fucked in the head doesn't begin to describe this...

  • @MachineintheMonkey

    @MachineintheMonkey

    Ай бұрын

    Apparently we are the intelligent species on earth, a quick glance through the earth’s history will show that every other intelligent species worked with nature, not against it.

  • @CausticLemons7

    @CausticLemons7

    Ай бұрын

    If you're suggesting we'll mine so much that the gravity or orbit of the Moon will change than you are VASTLY underestimating its mass and our capabilities. Google "mass of the Moon" and something like "annual mining mass" then use a calculator. We're still like ants compared to celestial bodies.

  • @hukphin740

    @hukphin740

    23 күн бұрын

    ....and not to mention that the mined resources would be turned into infrastructure..... on the moon. There would be no profit in sending it back to Earth.

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    @@CausticLemons7 Plus it, too, collects interplanetary dust and has done so for a very long time.

  • @tracycarlson4941
    @tracycarlson494118 күн бұрын

    Greed

  • @christopherforster6555
    @christopherforster6555Ай бұрын

    Mining mite unbalance the Earth and moon we have enough he .

  • @PeterPan-qp7vt
    @PeterPan-qp7vtАй бұрын

    THIS MESSAGE IS ELON MUSK !!!

  • @user-ld7bc9sz9n
    @user-ld7bc9sz9n17 күн бұрын

    Well one thing, is for certain, they will allllllll be sending there drones to stake out their wealth claims, mine mine mine mine. Im a billionaire, can i claim, and use squatters rights, with my drone robot? ..my new real estate deal, i own a prime piece of property on the moon, south side, on a hill, 7 stories all verandas, and a fantastic view of the dark side, the dark side of being a wealth hoarder.

  • @acdc1363
    @acdc1363Ай бұрын

    Moon mining sounds great but it shouldn’t be started it can only end badly ,,,asteroids now 🤔

  • @azifares5302
    @azifares5302Ай бұрын

    Not agree with this moon mining, imagine one day because of mining effect... Moon sway away from earth, without moon, earth is doom

  • @dennisreed6345

    @dennisreed6345

    Ай бұрын

    The moon is too massive for that

  • @captainwesb57

    @captainwesb57

    Ай бұрын

    You’re right it is massive. But who would’ve ever thought we’d be facing issues with CO2 in our atmosphere? We too probably reasoned at one point that the earth was to massive. I say too, it’s to massive to have an immediate effect. However, at some point we may reach a technical ability in which we find that we are having a lot larger negative effect on the moons mass quicker than we thought.

  • @trojanhorse6029

    @trojanhorse6029

    Ай бұрын

    Moon mining would just be the start. After a while, asteroids would be a more viable source than mining the moon. So much resource in space. The Moon will be fine.

  • @illumiNOTme326

    @illumiNOTme326

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@captainwesb57 we need more CO2 in atmosphere, not less.

  • @saumitraroy8802

    @saumitraroy8802

    Ай бұрын

    Has mining on earth impacted moon in any way. Both are unimpacted by anything. Anyway in few thousand years humans would be populating other planets right

  • @hallcrash
    @hallcrashАй бұрын

    Is this April fools content? Mining asteroids is one thing, but it's a bad idea to change the mass of a moon as its mass is important to its orbit and the gravitational effects on the planet they orbit.

  • @CausticLemons7

    @CausticLemons7

    Ай бұрын

    We're not going to change the mass of the Moon. Use a damn calculator and middle school maths to find out why this is an ignorant concern.

  • @friendlyone2706

    @friendlyone2706

    7 күн бұрын

    The amount of weight the moon has gained from infalling interplanetary dust for the last billion years is MUC more than we would remove by mining. If anything, we'd be returning it to its original size.

  • @bonieboy
    @bonieboyАй бұрын

    we have ruin this planet so lets do to others as well ...

  • @CausticLemons7

    @CausticLemons7

    Ай бұрын

    Those poor Moon birds, and Moon jungles, and we need to keep the air clean on the Moon...

  • @tpot725
    @tpot725Ай бұрын

    It is not enough to destroy earth, we must destroy the moon too! For money!

  • @rafsanayan7443

    @rafsanayan7443

    Ай бұрын

    😂😂No one has the ability to destroy the moon😂in the fucking world

  • @tpot725

    @tpot725

    Ай бұрын

    We did a good job destroying earth

  • @tpot725
    @tpot725Ай бұрын

    Terrible idea to mine the moon! And it’s a false equivalency to compare PCs on earth and mining the moon! Hope I’m dead before this expletive happens

  • @garysuplee5092
    @garysuplee5092Ай бұрын

    No time for all that,. See : End Time Events Shepherds Student. Its going down EXACTLY the way our Father said it's going down.

  • @reb2322

    @reb2322

    Ай бұрын

    AMEN!

  • @michaelaskay
    @michaelaskayАй бұрын

    USA. USA.USA🎉😂😂😂 Go elite musk

  • @MJW_1985
    @MJW_1985Ай бұрын

    Space jews? =D

  • @tpot725
    @tpot725Ай бұрын

    Insipid foolishness

  • @bosphorusfisherdiver2241
    @bosphorusfisherdiver2241Ай бұрын

    😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

  • @personal_torturer
    @personal_torturerАй бұрын

    Im 1st

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