Hey Isaac. I'm the Burned Man, i've been watching you for what feels like years. commented sometimes, but i talk to my friends and link you alot. I consider you basically a cool space authority with your good vids Godspeed and see you in Mars, friend
I think you could do a whole episode on the actual physical process of asteroid mining, especially in light of what probes have learned about their "gravel pile" composition. Nobody's going to be digging a tunnel into a mass of loose dust, so exactly how _do_ you mine an asteroid?
The blanket method.. cover the pile with a fine mesh or thin blanket. And then start the removal process. Eventually tech would advance and larger piles could be enclosed.
Be interesting how to do this though, since weed needs a lot of sunlight/heat/thermal energy to grow well. Genuinely curious how this might jive in space, especially with minimal gravity
I'm listening to the part mentioning how space-exclusive vehicles could be manufactured relatively cheaply, and this reminds me of the fact that space vehicles like the Soyuz and the Dragon are already a good bit cheaper than passanger airplanes, which I found interesting
Most of the struggle with current spacecraft is the tyranny of the rocket equation, there’s still plenty of issues like micrometeorite impacts and radiation to deal with but you don’t have to get all of that equipment and protection into space with 100x as much rocket fuel if it’s already in space
Yep, to be fair, not super well, I've had dinner with him a few times in the last couple years and we did a panel together, but we both read/watch each others stuff and you tend to feel like you know someone from that, which also to be fair, is frequently the case.
I wouldn't like to mine asteroids, but I suppose I can understand the attraction. The miners are out on their own, far away from anyone, with no one to rely on but themselves -- but also no one telling them what they have to do or how they have to live. Life also lacks complexity -- the technology is sophisticated but what one does with it is pretty straightforward and easy to understand. -Move from one asteroid to another as the initial drone visit identifies those with prospects. -Explore it to figure out what valuables it may have. -Settle down for awhile on one with enough resources to make it worthwhile. -Mine it out, and then move on, hoping to strike it rich on one dense with resources. There are a lot of people around, today, who struggle to deal with the complexity of modern life and would welcome the ability to to put tens of thousands of kilometers between themselves and the nearest town -- which they only visit once every year or so to pick up supplies.
But hey, some people would be attracted to that. Just like there would be some people who are attracted to dangerous career paths on Earth and others who like living off grid.
It was a wonderful video. As always, compliments to you and the SFIA Team. I’m sure you’ve got a couple of dozen plates to keep spinning at the same time. I’m going to put it this way: I feel fortunate to have found your channel in its nascent stages, and from that time on, I feel it has been a LUXURY to have enjoyed music that you have listened to and selected for the videos, personally. -And now if you’ll pardon me, I’m going to go listen to some Stellardrone, some Brandon Liew, and some Lombus. -As always, best to you and your fam. -Christophe.
14:57 kinda goofed up AI flag. Not complaining, just the quality on these things you use is generally high enough that I don’t notice any issues, so I’m proud of myself for spotting one. Leaving that aside, this is one of my favorite episodes you’ve done, and the Space Family Robinson made me smile.
@@isaacarthurSFIA I get it. Honestly, I didn’t realize people were sending you the art. I feel like maybe I have been wasting my time by not sending you art. :) Anyway, I love your stuff, I have been subscribed for years, and hope you don’t take anything I said as a criticism.
I remember the movie OUTLAND..starring Sean Conery.. and it left a long impression on me.. Big corporations will be suspicious villians even in space.. Great movie... watch it..
So I had a curious thought when you mentioned how there's going to be a lot of surplus oxygen from any orbital refineries and it's entirely to do with terraforming. Namely the vast majority of planets are going to need a massive increase of atmospheric gases in order to maintain a breathable atmosphere, or even just an atmosphere where all you need is a breathing mask. And whilst dumping all that surplus oxygen into the planet's atmosphere would cause issues if that's the only source of gas (other than comets which mostly provide water) you use, there's actually a bit of a sneaky fact I *think* tends to be forgotten about in most discussions of terraforming worlds. That is, the majority of these worlds probably haven't had an oxygenation event happen on them. Which means there is going to be a *lot* of exposed surface, near-surface and ocean (of what liquid said oceans are is definitely a question, but still oceans) minerals that are all *intensely* reactive with oxygen. This means that you may very well need to dump in two, three or even four times as much oxygen as it might seem into the atmosphere just to have the oxygen remain in the atmosphere rather than get absorbed by the planet. Sure, that's then solvable by having a reaction occur somehow on the planet breaking the oxygen back out of the oxides but... Well, if you need to deliver a large cargo load of materials to the planet surface anyway, might you end up doing so by attaching that to a massive oxygen tank which is designed to vent it's contents once it's entered the atmosphere? Could you use said venting gas as course correction and deceleration mass for the material cargo pod? Sure, that's not necessarily the *sanest* of ideas because it means at the very least you are throwing around canisters full of hundreds of tons of very cold and pressurised oxygen, if not even liquid or even ice/metallic oxygen for optimal storage. But it seems like it might be rather efficient if you've spent the time developing the machinery and designs for producing reliable cargo pods of this sort.
I would love to see a video on the adjacent businesses and work that would pop up to support these nomadic mining projects! I know in CO, when the “green rush” happened Electricians , glass blowers, hydroponics equipment and horticultural product warehouses made even more money than the multi-billion dollar cannabis industry It would be super interesting to see how communities in space would spread out and expand 😊
Using waste oxygen and being lazy about slow leaks implies you're using low pressure nearly pure oxygen instead of a higher pressure oxy/nitrogen mix or the ilk; not as bad as full pressure pure oxygen but still a a big fire hazard. Not that it means people won't do it, but you'll lose more ships and stations to fire than you would otherwise and have to be extra vigilant both in prevention and detection/extinguishing it.
I can imagine in an age like Gaunt's, a very valuable grey and black market talent is to be able to develop advanced functions with subpar cybernetics. Being able to have some kind of massive cooling systems or micro radiators to overclock on demand. Kinda like getting 8K gaming rig results out of a raspberry pi
Hey isaac been watching ur from basically the begining and given u have on metamaterials and other advanced materials like graphene and nanotubes i think u should do a video about high entropy alloys given there has been en explosion in research in that topic by material scientists in the past decade or so.
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said, "Well, a-bless my soul" - "Sixteen Tons" "Tennessee Ernie Ford a great song for the space age!
I could see there being a sort of hybrid approach to going out to the frontier. You wouldn't get out there with your space family in a space Conestoga and hope you make it to your destination in one piece before you died of space dysentery, your launch windows would dictate when you could leave for your destination, so you'd generally be traveling in a convoy of passenger spacecraft and freighters. You'd take your Starship analogue up to an LEO station, either for refueling and resupply or to transfer to a dedicated space ferry, and you'd go with a whole bunch of other strike-it-rich hopefuls to a port of call like Ceres, Psyche, Pallas, Vesta, or Hygiea, and from there you'd either buy your tools and mining pod and go stake a claim or sign on to a mining expedition to a nearby asteroid or claim site. Your typical small operator mining spacecraft needn't be much bigger than an Apollo CSM or Soyuz Orbit+Descent Module, especially if you're just going to a nearby rock and you're using ion or nuclear propulsion. I could even see the smaller operators running a sort of apprentice system, where the veterans who do well enough to need to hire help bringing a new miner on and teaching them the trade. Ships like the Robinsons' would only belong to big corporate operations or those miners who got lucky and made billions off their claims, but there might be enough of them to keep hope alive. I could also see a booming trade in secondhand mining equipment as small operators and bigger mining companies go bust but their equipment is still in pretty good condition. That said, I don't see there being much automation early on. Space probes are fine for getting samples and scouting new targets, but actual mining infrastructure requires equipment and supply chains that may not practical at first, while a human miner present there may be more capable of handling a wider range of situations, especially early on when you need to invent new mining methods onsite. As an historical irony, your first asteroid miners might be astronauts in spacesuits panning for gold on rubble pile asteroids with a sieve. Of course, in all likelihood the asteroid mining industry will be dominated by a handful of quintillion-dollar megacorporations with a smattering of mom-and-pop miners lucky enough to scratch themselves a living off the rocks the industry giants can't be bothered to mine but claimed anyway out of sheer spite.
@Isaac Arthur, How about an episode or maybe several episodes on how we might transport other Earth life to the moon, Mars, and beyond, How do you get cows and bulls to Mars without the bull getting upset and trying to bore a hole in the ship's hull!
As a minor, I've always wondered what it'd be like to be a miner. Hopefully I can be a miner when I grow up (chances are that job market won't exist for ages). I still like rocks though, maybe geologist could work.
I have nothing but utmost respect for anyone toiling in heavy industries, but mining, out of all trades, is a hard sell. Too f'n hazardous. Too bad for health. In most cases, also bad for the environment - hence the dream of moving the industry to space.
Dont worry, we'll always be pulling stuff we need from the ground, so we'll always need miners. Just what is being mined might change, but the basic job type will remain.
Always loved this channel mate, and don't get here as often as i like, but it's always a pleasure... I'm _so_ glad you continue to narrate your work personally, and dont hire it out or use AI... Keep it up my friend. I've said it before but I'll say it again: the perfect TH-cam channel...🤗👍🏴
Sweating and going to the bathroom in the same dirty spacesuit, eating food cubes, sleeping in some noisy vibrating hamster wheel contraption to simulate gravity so your body doesn’t fail… What’s not to love about that. Probably a popular career option for the unfortunate people needing to afford the outrageous prices of oxygen and water in Elon City, Mars.
Hey Isaac do you think that tension rings could be used as a middle ground for space elevators if were never able to develop the materials for full space elevators?
I rather like the implications and direct costs of things in something like Elite Dangerous as a comparison. You can get a basic small ship like a Hauler for around 30,000 credits, which even if we said a credit was a dollar that's pretty darn cheap for a space ship. And from there it doesn't take much to kit the thing out to run cargo, or carry passengers, or go mining, etc. If the cost of manufacturing went down and average wages went up, y'all could definitely bet there'd be folks out there with their own ships effectively operating as mobile small business owners. And I figure that'd be likely even if we had things like UBI's or various flavours of post scarcity society on any given planet or habitat.
Might be better to find or make a selected slow rotating asteroid tidally locked to the sun. Continuous uninterrupted electricity to mine such an asteroid. Also easier to regulate the temperature for mining.
co-orbitals and mega-habitable systems (artificial or otherwise) would probably need to be split into at least 2 parts :d edit: look up images of "cohorts of co-orbital planets" for explanation and inspiration nother edit: types of star systems
with robots so advanced, why would anybody send any human (or augmented human) anywhere to mine or repair and rescue etc? why not a few humans who just tell all the robots what to do? adventurers might try it, sure. But then they will be outcompeted by those 99% robotic miner missions, where only the decision makers are fragile (and therefore costly) humans
I just want to live on an asteroid that is spun up like some natural o'Neil cylinder.
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well at least we will PROBABLY not be seeing a lot of Shanghaied people waking up on board a mining ship with a terrible headache and not knowing how they got there. That will be an upgrade on the age of sail.
I think we are more likely going to see automation dominate space with very minimal human space flight. It is expensive to keep humans healthy in space.
. . . ask a friendly Ai this, it is interesting, no more, no less: How could we mine rocks in space using a corrosive gas mixture pumped into a giant plastic bag?
Unless.... :) With a decent connection and a computer.. especially good VR.. and an aquarium.. and a large gardenhouse.. and my family and friends.. and good equipment and a good repairshop.. centrifugal housing and all the neceesary medical supplies... and a delivery ship coming every two months.. and a government I can be proud of and the feeling of safety :) Where you need that roid?
Due to population dynamics over centuries, anyone alive today, if they play their cards right, can set their 3rd great grandchildren up to be trillionaire real estate investors in the asteroid habitat market
Uh, air is 78% nitrogen and people can't breath pure oxygen (at least not long term) without it causing health problems. Even if you have surplus oxygen from your metalurgy you might need to pay close attention to air leakage just to keep hold of your nitrogen supplies. Unless you also have a surplus of nitrogen for some reason.
Robots are going to be used for that obviously. And until we can learn exactly what gravity is and how to manipulate it and how to create our own ,. We will not be able to exist for long terms in space
Remember the Canterbury
oye beratna!
Remember the Cant!
Nah time fo no WellWalla!
OPA
Namang na gonya take my ship
Mi gonya race it till im kush
Namang na gonya beat my ship
Im gonya bek da fash da lush!
We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune.
Oh, Mining is a perfectly safe profession, it’s the people who mine that are in danger.
JOHN MADDEN
I remember watching free willy in the cinema somone in the back row started wailing...i got hit in the back of the head with a harpoon.
I hear this in my head every time Mr Arthur talks about the moon.
❤😂
Perfect research for a Sci-fi novelist.
Thank you.
As an aspiring novelist myself, this channel is a treasure trove!
You and me both, I’m editing a science fiction book and I use this channel as a reference for the space technology aspects in my storytelling 😅
Hey Isaac. I'm the Burned Man, i've been watching you for what feels like years. commented sometimes, but i talk to my friends and link you alot. I consider you basically a cool space authority with your good vids
Godspeed and see you in Mars, friend
I think you could do a whole episode on the actual physical process of asteroid mining, especially in light of what probes have learned about their "gravel pile" composition. Nobody's going to be digging a tunnel into a mass of loose dust, so exactly how _do_ you mine an asteroid?
The blanket method.. cover the pile with a fine mesh or thin blanket. And then start the removal process. Eventually tech would advance and larger piles could be enclosed.
Hazard pay
Scenic views
The occasional monolith
Who wouldn't want to be an asteroid miner!?
Yeah honestly I hate Elon but if he said "I need asteroid miners" I'd go to asteroid mining school
@@LeafBoyeI don't dislike Elon but I'm not too keen on working for him lol
It's the remote work that's attractive.
Wow, you're just filled with hate for no reason?
Some good world-building and informative explanations.
A good Sunday episode as always.
You just know people would move into abandoned asteroids and start growing space weed.
That's the dream bru. Shoot off from the downs, find you your own abandoned asteroid mine and just live off the hydro.
One of my favorite cowboy bebop episodes 🖤
You can't make money growing on earth, why would it be better off earth?
Definitely. Though some of the abandoned asteroids are large enough to hold vast weed PLANTATIONS within them, complete with hippie communes!
Be interesting how to do this though, since weed needs a lot of sunlight/heat/thermal energy to grow well.
Genuinely curious how this might jive in space, especially with minimal gravity
Mining asteriods was one of my first jobs. I'm from Outer Space.
My wealthy friends and I like to fly out and make fun of the rubes.
Nebula Schmebula... I can't ever find something to watch worthwhile.
I'm listening to the part mentioning how space-exclusive vehicles could be manufactured relatively cheaply, and this reminds me of the fact that space vehicles like the Soyuz and the Dragon are already a good bit cheaper than passanger airplanes, which I found interesting
Most of the struggle with current spacecraft is the tyranny of the rocket equation, there’s still plenty of issues like micrometeorite impacts and radiation to deal with but you don’t have to get all of that equipment and protection into space with 100x as much rocket fuel if it’s already in space
Asteroid mining families and their children, asteroid minors. Growing up with plenty of space 😊
some day an asteroid will be named Isca Arturis in your honor
This man and JMG deserve more than just asteroids named after them
Beltalowda !!!!
Oye beratna
Frak'n Inners.
Another great episode Isaac and Team! Really gets the imagination going. Life as an Asteroid Miner doesn't seem too "boring".
That's a good one, Everybody always drops the good one-liners after the episode comes out :)
I didn't know you knew Daniel, but his books are great. Delta-V is an excellent series.
Yep, to be fair, not super well, I've had dinner with him a few times in the last couple years and we did a panel together, but we both read/watch each others stuff and you tend to feel like you know someone from that, which also to be fair, is frequently the case.
I wouldn't like to mine asteroids, but I suppose I can understand the attraction.
The miners are out on their own, far away from anyone, with no one to rely on but themselves -- but also no one telling them what they have to do or how they have to live.
Life also lacks complexity -- the technology is sophisticated but what one does with it is pretty straightforward and easy to understand.
-Move from one asteroid to another as the initial drone visit identifies those with prospects.
-Explore it to figure out what valuables it may have.
-Settle down for awhile on one with enough resources to make it worthwhile.
-Mine it out, and then move on, hoping to strike it rich on one dense with resources.
There are a lot of people around, today, who struggle to deal with the complexity of modern life and would welcome the ability to to put tens of thousands of kilometers between themselves and the nearest town -- which they only visit once every year or so to pick up supplies.
But hey, some people would be attracted to that. Just like there would be some people who are attracted to dangerous career paths on Earth and others who like living off grid.
Plenty of opportunities to do that here on Earth. Still not a lot of people filling them.
You’re a dang legend!!
Awesome. Thanks Isaac.
Bring on the Rock Hoppers!
Isaac, at 12:19 - I wish you had said "Would this analogy hold in space, the frontier of frontiers?"
Another excellent video, definetly a thumbs up.
It was a wonderful video. As always, compliments to you and the SFIA Team. I’m sure you’ve got a couple of dozen plates to keep spinning at the same time. I’m going to put it this way: I feel fortunate to have found your channel in its nascent stages, and from that time on, I feel it has been a LUXURY to have enjoyed music that you have listened to and selected for the videos, personally. -And now if you’ll pardon me, I’m going to go listen to some Stellardrone, some Brandon Liew, and some Lombus. -As always, best to you and your fam.
-Christophe.
I haven't used Liew in a while, need to again :)
Much better than being a miner in Uranus
Beltalowda!
I LOVE this channel
14:57 kinda goofed up AI flag. Not complaining, just the quality on these things you use is generally high enough that I don’t notice any issues, so I’m proud of myself for spotting one.
Leaving that aside, this is one of my favorite episodes you’ve done, and the Space Family Robinson made me smile.
yeah I don't really worry about those details in the art folks send me, truth be told I often don't notice.
@@isaacarthurSFIA I get it. Honestly, I didn’t realize people were sending you the art. I feel like maybe I have been wasting my time by not sending you art. :)
Anyway, I love your stuff, I have been subscribed for years, and hope you don’t take anything I said as a criticism.
"ROCK AND STONE!" oT
Born too late to be a gold miner, born too early to be an asteroid miner, born just in time to be a bitcoin miner
I hate this timeline :pepe-hands:
Born too late and too early to spell to as you will
missed that bit coin boat too
bitcoin miner is quite expensive and can hurt your wallet.
lol
I remember the movie OUTLAND..starring Sean Conery..
and it left a long impression on me..
Big corporations will be suspicious villians even in space..
Great movie... watch it..
Great movie. "WELCOME TO THE ROCK" classic line
havingt been a miner myself, i have akways wondered about this ?
the asteriod belt must be amazing ?
Sitting behind a control panel managing a bunch of drones while texting on the twitter of the future.
TY SFIA. Great episode.
ASTEROID ROCK AND STONE!⛏⛏⛏
For Karl!
In the early days, DRG was gonna focus on asteroid mining before they decided to switch to just mining Hoxxes IV instead.
I do love this channel: come for the speculative sci-fi, stay for the "hold on there's some guy in my garden"
These videos are great man.
Thank you. You gave me some inspiration for one of my stories
Space Engineers tells me that it would be mostly boring.
That's drilled into you during the learning process, innit?
When space travel gets exciting, it usually means that you're about to die.
Great ideas in this one!
Rookie Privateer by Jamie McFarlane. Fun asteriod mining and blue collar space adventure.
So I had a curious thought when you mentioned how there's going to be a lot of surplus oxygen from any orbital refineries and it's entirely to do with terraforming. Namely the vast majority of planets are going to need a massive increase of atmospheric gases in order to maintain a breathable atmosphere, or even just an atmosphere where all you need is a breathing mask. And whilst dumping all that surplus oxygen into the planet's atmosphere would cause issues if that's the only source of gas (other than comets which mostly provide water) you use, there's actually a bit of a sneaky fact I *think* tends to be forgotten about in most discussions of terraforming worlds.
That is, the majority of these worlds probably haven't had an oxygenation event happen on them. Which means there is going to be a *lot* of exposed surface, near-surface and ocean (of what liquid said oceans are is definitely a question, but still oceans) minerals that are all *intensely* reactive with oxygen. This means that you may very well need to dump in two, three or even four times as much oxygen as it might seem into the atmosphere just to have the oxygen remain in the atmosphere rather than get absorbed by the planet. Sure, that's then solvable by having a reaction occur somehow on the planet breaking the oxygen back out of the oxides but...
Well, if you need to deliver a large cargo load of materials to the planet surface anyway, might you end up doing so by attaching that to a massive oxygen tank which is designed to vent it's contents once it's entered the atmosphere? Could you use said venting gas as course correction and deceleration mass for the material cargo pod?
Sure, that's not necessarily the *sanest* of ideas because it means at the very least you are throwing around canisters full of hundreds of tons of very cold and pressurised oxygen, if not even liquid or even ice/metallic oxygen for optimal storage. But it seems like it might be rather efficient if you've spent the time developing the machinery and designs for producing reliable cargo pods of this sort.
**licks lips**
An anstroid what?
- Cosmic Drake
On an innocent point, this gives me the idea to call my kids and grandkids asteroid minors as a term of endearment
LMAO
I would love to see a video on the adjacent businesses and work that would pop up to support these nomadic mining projects!
I know in CO, when the “green rush” happened
Electricians , glass blowers, hydroponics equipment and horticultural product warehouses made even more money than the multi-billion dollar cannabis industry
It would be super interesting to see how communities in space would spread out and expand 😊
Using waste oxygen and being lazy about slow leaks implies you're using low pressure nearly pure oxygen instead of a higher pressure oxy/nitrogen mix or the ilk; not as bad as full pressure pure oxygen but still a a big fire hazard.
Not that it means people won't do it, but you'll lose more ships and stations to fire than you would otherwise and have to be extra vigilant both in prevention and detection/extinguishing it.
Or an ability to concentrate oxygen. You’re right on the fire regardless. That’ll be at least as big a hazard in space as it is on a waterborne ship
@@robertadsett5273 Fire prevention is higher priority than sealing leaks.
A bigger issue than fire would be asphyxiation. Without CO2 your body doesn't trigger your lungs to inhale.
Man, I sure do love miners!
stay strapped
Im hyped for the astroid farmer folk music.
I can imagine in an age like Gaunt's,
a very valuable grey and black market talent is to be able to develop advanced functions with subpar cybernetics.
Being able to have some kind of massive cooling systems or micro radiators to overclock on demand. Kinda like getting 8K gaming rig results out of a raspberry pi
Hahahaha!
Hey isaac been watching ur from basically the begining and given u have on metamaterials and other advanced materials like graphene and nanotubes i think u should do a video about high entropy alloys given there has been en explosion in research in that topic by material scientists in the past decade or so.
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said, "Well, a-bless my soul"
- "Sixteen Tons" "Tennessee Ernie Ford a great song for the space age!
And owe your soul to the company store! 🏪
I could see there being a sort of hybrid approach to going out to the frontier. You wouldn't get out there with your space family in a space Conestoga and hope you make it to your destination in one piece before you died of space dysentery, your launch windows would dictate when you could leave for your destination, so you'd generally be traveling in a convoy of passenger spacecraft and freighters. You'd take your Starship analogue up to an LEO station, either for refueling and resupply or to transfer to a dedicated space ferry, and you'd go with a whole bunch of other strike-it-rich hopefuls to a port of call like Ceres, Psyche, Pallas, Vesta, or Hygiea, and from there you'd either buy your tools and mining pod and go stake a claim or sign on to a mining expedition to a nearby asteroid or claim site.
Your typical small operator mining spacecraft needn't be much bigger than an Apollo CSM or Soyuz Orbit+Descent Module, especially if you're just going to a nearby rock and you're using ion or nuclear propulsion. I could even see the smaller operators running a sort of apprentice system, where the veterans who do well enough to need to hire help bringing a new miner on and teaching them the trade. Ships like the Robinsons' would only belong to big corporate operations or those miners who got lucky and made billions off their claims, but there might be enough of them to keep hope alive. I could also see a booming trade in secondhand mining equipment as small operators and bigger mining companies go bust but their equipment is still in pretty good condition.
That said, I don't see there being much automation early on. Space probes are fine for getting samples and scouting new targets, but actual mining infrastructure requires equipment and supply chains that may not practical at first, while a human miner present there may be more capable of handling a wider range of situations, especially early on when you need to invent new mining methods onsite. As an historical irony, your first asteroid miners might be astronauts in spacesuits panning for gold on rubble pile asteroids with a sieve.
Of course, in all likelihood the asteroid mining industry will be dominated by a handful of quintillion-dollar megacorporations with a smattering of mom-and-pop miners lucky enough to scratch themselves a living off the rocks the industry giants can't be bothered to mine but claimed anyway out of sheer spite.
@Isaac Arthur, How about an episode or maybe several episodes on how we might transport other Earth life to the moon, Mars, and beyond, How do you get cows and bulls to Mars without the bull getting upset and trying to bore a hole in the ship's hull!
Can you imagine being a player in Issac's (insert you favorite ttrpg) campaign? How awesome would that be?
Isaac escorting a prowler off his property!
As a minor, I've always wondered what it'd be like to be a miner. Hopefully I can be a miner when I grow up (chances are that job market won't exist for ages). I still like rocks though, maybe geologist could work.
I have nothing but utmost respect for anyone toiling in heavy industries, but mining, out of all trades, is a hard sell.
Too f'n hazardous. Too bad for health. In most cases, also bad for the environment - hence the dream of moving the industry to space.
@@HTWW I was trying to make a minor/miner pun but I'm not so sure I did it correctly lol
@@waspsandwich6548 haha, I had a feeling you'd say that...
I think it would land better with the child slavery theme.)))
The children yearn for the mines.
Dont worry, we'll always be pulling stuff we need from the ground, so we'll always need miners. Just what is being mined might change, but the basic job type will remain.
Public storage makes out... everyone needs to store stuff... secure space storage
Time to play some video games based on this subject...
Almost as profitable as the salvage yards but the view is 100x better
Anyone watched the expanse?
Always loved this channel mate, and don't get here as often as i like, but it's always a pleasure... I'm _so_ glad you continue to narrate your work personally, and dont hire it out or use AI... Keep it up my friend. I've said it before but I'll say it again: the perfect TH-cam channel...🤗👍🏴
Life as an asteroid minor? Quiet... mostly quiet.
"Escorted him off my property." LOL You mean with a shotgun to his back? 🤣🤣
Interesting recycling material from Lost In Space.
Sweating and going to the bathroom in the same dirty spacesuit, eating food cubes, sleeping in some noisy vibrating hamster wheel contraption to simulate gravity so your body doesn’t fail… What’s not to love about that. Probably a popular career option for the unfortunate people needing to afford the outrageous prices of oxygen and water in Elon City, Mars.
Hey Isaac do you think that tension rings could be used as a middle ground for space elevators if were never able to develop the materials for full space elevators?
I tihnk you'd just go the tethered ring or orbital ring route instead, but we'll be doing an extended update on space elevators in December.
@@isaacarthurSFIA nice
Rock and Stone!
I am nearly positive that within a couple of decades, robots will be doing the mining, just prospecting and a few supervisors and engineers.
Belter, from the RPG Traveler's "Citizens of the Imperium" - the one career with more than 50% of chance of dying in your first 4 years. :o
I rather like the implications and direct costs of things in something like Elite Dangerous as a comparison. You can get a basic small ship like a Hauler for around 30,000 credits, which even if we said a credit was a dollar that's pretty darn cheap for a space ship. And from there it doesn't take much to kit the thing out to run cargo, or carry passengers, or go mining, etc. If the cost of manufacturing went down and average wages went up, y'all could definitely bet there'd be folks out there with their own ships effectively operating as mobile small business owners. And I figure that'd be likely even if we had things like UBI's or various flavours of post scarcity society on any given planet or habitat.
Might be better to find or make a selected slow rotating asteroid tidally locked to the sun. Continuous uninterrupted electricity to mine such an asteroid. Also easier to regulate the temperature for mining.
Mirrors can do the same easier
co-orbitals and mega-habitable systems (artificial or otherwise)
would probably need to be split into at least 2 parts :d
edit: look up images of "cohorts of co-orbital planets" for explanation and inspiration
nother edit: types of star systems
What would life as an asteroid miner be like? Rocky.
I'm trying a life hack where I make a drink and a snack while listening to the video.
Do take the idea about shipping ore via capsule shot from a raul gun. If we had a vasmir rocket, could we liter the flight path with propellant?
with robots so advanced, why would anybody send any human (or augmented human) anywhere to mine or repair and rescue etc?
why not a few humans who just tell all the robots what to do?
adventurers might try it, sure. But then they will be outcompeted by those 99% robotic miner missions, where only the decision makers are fragile (and therefore costly) humans
Then we develop the Cylons and the next thing you know it's Battlestar Galactica in real life!
Isaac are you part of a secret space program? Kindly asking✨
Really like Daniel Suarez but hadn’t heard of that one. I will check it out on Audible.
An Episode about parenting in space. The recital at the 19min mark involving citizenship started me thin😢about it.
I just want to live on an asteroid that is spun up like some natural o'Neil cylinder.
well at least we will PROBABLY not be seeing a lot of Shanghaied people waking up on board a mining ship with a terrible headache and not knowing how they got there. That will be an upgrade on the age of sail.
Fun bread and butter episode
Belters.
When minor planets become miner planets.
Rock and stone
I think we are more likely going to see automation dominate space with very minimal human space flight. It is expensive to keep humans healthy in space.
bah I was just writing a short story on this and ya beat me to it.
. . . ask a friendly Ai this, it is interesting, no more, no less: How could we mine rocks in space using a corrosive gas mixture pumped into a giant plastic bag?
Probably A minerrrrrrrrrrrrr
oh i am super excited about fungal aliens.
Build mining station...build reserach station..next system ...wait for influence...🙄🐌🐌
I'd imagine it'd be pretty lonely. And boring.
Unless....
:)
With a decent connection and a computer.. especially good VR.. and an aquarium.. and a large gardenhouse.. and my family and friends.. and good equipment and a good repairshop.. centrifugal housing and all the neceesary medical supplies... and a delivery ship coming every two months.. and a government I can be proud of and the feeling of safety :) Where you need that roid?
PUN
True for a lot of space stuff tbh- I feel people often underestimate how this would mess ones head up
For the Algorithm!
For the Algorithm!
Bloody AI imperials
Due to population dynamics over centuries, anyone alive today, if they play their cards right, can set their 3rd great grandchildren up to be trillionaire real estate investors in the asteroid habitat market
* Entering the asteroid’s Cantina and the band is playing… * th-cam.com/video/a27KdwD9btk/w-d-xo.html
Uh, air is 78% nitrogen and people can't breath pure oxygen (at least not long term) without it causing health problems. Even if you have surplus oxygen from your metalurgy you might need to pay close attention to air leakage just to keep hold of your nitrogen supplies. Unless you also have a surplus of nitrogen for some reason.
Robots are going to be used for that obviously. And until we can learn exactly what gravity is and how to manipulate it and how to create our own ,. We will not be able to exist for long terms in space
Do you need more ∆v?
This Undina asteroid; is it part of the Omhi'an astroid system?
Oye Beltalowda!
Haha I've been playing Delta V: Rings of Saturn
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