SPACE MINING

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Hank summarizes the exciting news about Planetary Resources, a company with plans to mine near-earth asteroids for precious metals and water, and what these plans might mean for humanity's future in space. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow For more information on this topic: Planetary Resources website http://www.planetaryresources.com/ Brief on the company from Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/?p1=blogs Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study http://kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf

Published 2012-04-25 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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