What it will take to make asteroid mining a reality and what lies in the future.
It has been said that the world's first trillionaires will be the ones who make their fortune in mining... asteroid mining! Over the years, this eventuality has been predicted by people like famed futurist Peter Diamandis, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and financial firm Goldmann Sachs.
According to one common model, having consumed most of the material from the solar nebula, the rest of the gas and dust formed into a large, flat disk around the Sun's equator - a circumsolar accretion disk. Over the next few eons, this disk gradually condensed in place to form the planets. Asteroids, as we saw above, are believed to be the material left over from the formation of the Solar System. As such, many asteroids are thought to have compositions that are similar to that of Earth and the other rocky planets .
These latter two groups are thought to contain abundant minerals, including gold, platinum, cobalt, zinc, tin, lead, indium, silver, copper, iron, and various rare-Earth metals. For millennia, these metals have been mined from the Earth's crust and have been essential to economic and technological progress.
To put it simply, we are running out of resources. To be clear, learning to use our resources better and more sustainably is always the most important idea. And while it is certainly true that Earth-based mining is far cheaper than going to space would be, that may not be the case indefinitely.
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