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Space Mining
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Mining rare metals from asteroids could provide a vital supply of materials necessary for advanced engineering and technological development.
“the kinds of industrial technologies we're looking and you know the advanced technologies who wants to develop a sort of held back a bit by the fact we don't have this infinite supply of some of these precious metals so if we knew that we could get a lot of them in space and bring them back then it ”
StarTalk · Jul 2019 · 1 episode · 237K views on this topic
The prospect of mining the moon is a viable and potentially necessary endeavor if managed correctly to prevent ecological damage.
“It's got to happen. But like we were talking earlier, you don't want to overmine the moon. So we got to be careful.”
Timcast IRL · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 173K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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