Billionaires Are Secretly Directing Asteroids To Earth and We Don’t Know Why
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I thought it was 65 Million years ago, like the Jurassic Park movie says, get the story straight.
@@chickenwings6172 jurassic park also thinks a t. rex can’t see you if you stand still
Don't look up! 😂
sup Thoughty :)) i like your style bud. haven't subscribed yet but maybe one day. non the less, when i get a Thoughty vid pop up in my feed. im like "hell yeah. ok yeah now i got something better to watch" lol.. so cheers to your brother.
Thanks for making these informative videos. I've learned a lot from your channel in the last 2-3 years.
When I was a child I was taught in school that the great impact was 65 million years ago. Now it's 66 million. Time goes by so fast!
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I think it’s more that older methods calculated that it happened around 65.5 million years ago and most people rounded down, but more modern dating methods have given us a date of 66.038 million years ago, plus or minus 11,000 years
Wow almost like technology changes every year never would of thought!
@@DIRTYPLACCY was the swoosh loud when OPs comment went over your head? 🤦
For many years ive watched your videos. Im sure i speak for all the viewers here when i say, Thank you for your wonferful work!! Very insightful, thought provoking and filled with intersting facts. Look forward to the next instalment!!
Of all the sci fi movies over the years that have predicted the future, who would've thought that Armageddon would be potentially the most accurate.
Or Don't Look Up!
Right😅😂 loved that movie tho 🥲
Alien is far closer, minus the alien shit
Ah yes, it's much easier to train oil drillers to work in space than it is to teach an astronaut to use a drill.
@@dyent 😂 But, I need my own guys if you want me to do this for you. Astronauts don't know jack about drilling!
"Turns out that smug metal bastard was lying to us." Much like chat gpt you have to ask if they are sure 😅
I absolutly love this channel, i would support it if I could, Im a 70 yo pensioner. Have followed for a long time. Oh that I could be alive in the 21st century, The things you people will see I envy you so much. Live long and prosper.
“Mine it at our leisure” is something no miner or astronaut has ever said 😅
I'm pretty sure dwarfs love it.
I've heard of that guy Aster Roids before. I'm more intimately familiar with his sister Hemma though
Yes, I hear she's really into butt stuff
Someone give this man a handshake. This is gold
I've heard of guy Ste Roids.
lol i just got it
Hemma Roids is a pain in the ass!
Many of these resources are only valuable because they are scarce. If we suddenly gained a huge supply of gold we wouldn’t suddenly be rich. Gold would just lose all of its value.
Population and in the scenario placed forth in the video 2 worlds would be using it as a currency basis not to mention the asteroid mining fields so to speak themselves using it as a currency backing our outright. It seems to me that is one of the major pushes behind everyone who can rushing to space.
So glad you promoted Star Trek Fleet Command. My friend is heavily into Star Trek. So much so that he has 3 ears. A right ear, a left ear and a final front ear
I've been hearing about resources running out my entire life, yet we keep finding more of what we currently need and new uses for stuff we never used before.
True and well stated. 👍
We are going to run we just haven’t yet. Who told you we would by now? We are the only beings in the universe that we know of that has the ability to even think that far ahead. To sit there and just ignore it is sad.
Theres a reason why, the youth become eco warriors which help the elite plan of world control via one gov
Guess your not a fisherman because we see less everything now
Bingo. Say something is scarce, raise the stock prices, cash out, say you found more. Rinse, repeat
"Im king Charles, look at my drip"....😂 That freaking Charles is at it again.
Well, if I went back in time to my grandmother’s day back in 1918 and told her everyone in the future has a device that can communicate with anyone in the world and also gave access to almost all the information and research in human history, and it’s no bigger than a wallet, she’d laugh me off as a looney, yet here we are!
Maybe not. In a few decades, they had a phone, cars, light bulbs, radio, airplanes, and moving pictures. They had a sense of technological advancement.
She'd probably write the local asylum and have you locked up within a fort night
Conclusion: people will try to do anything except learn to use local resources sustainably.
Foreign people see KZhead videos of dumpster divers and think they can "mine" our streets. Hence, mass migration.
Nailed it
That would be because it’s impossible to use local resources sustainably at this point
Your phone, computer and every electronic device contains gold.
@marktyler3381 you contain gold
"Money doesn't talk, it swears." Bob Dylan - 'It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
One of the best lines from one of his best songs. 🩸
Sadly, there are not enough expletives to describe the obscenity, which is money
@@user-xi7lr6oe6q money is the god of this world
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Seeing as how the moon has millions of asteroids laying around a moon base would be the most logical starting point. don't even have to chase them. could be entire gold boulders there. Eventually the materials for space travel will need to be mined in space and processed on the moon anyways. No atmosphere to cause problems.
Just be sure not to send nuclear waste there!
The problem is space treaties surrounding the moon. Officially, no country is allowed to "claim" any parts of the moon, and the legal question is completely up in the air whether or not private companies can touch the moon let alone mine resources from it.
If we have made it to the moon..... There would be a Walmart, McDonald's, and a golf course there 😂.
@@mateothomas7071you mean if private enterprise got there. Unfortunately the government got there, so they focus on the impractical and are massively wasteful while doing it.
@@musicloverme3993 It worked for Walter Matthau . . .
A space construction yard for ships would be start.
please define "ships"
@@dynhoyw Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages ship1 /SHip/ noun noun: ship; plural noun: ships a vessel larger than a boat for transporting people or goods by sea. Similar: vessel craft boat a sailing vessel with a bowsprit and three or more square-rigged masts. INFORMAL any boat, especially a racing boat. a spaceship. NORTH AMERICAN an aircraft. verb verb: ship; 3rd person present: ships; past tense: shipped; past participle: shipped; gerund or present participle: shipping 1. transport (goods or people) on a ship. "the wounded soldiers were shipped home" send by some other means of transport or by mail. "the freight would be shipped by rail" (of a product) be made available for purchase. "the cellular phone is expected to ship at about $500 sometime this summer" (of a naval force) go to sea from a home port. "Bob got sick a week before we shipped out" DATED embark on a ship. "people wishing to get from London to New York ship at Liverpool" (of a sailor) serve on a ship. "Jack, you shipped with the Admiral once, didn't you?" 2. (of a boat) take in (water) over the side. 3. take (oars) from the oarlocks and lay them inside a boat. fix (something such as a rudder or mast) in its place on a ship. Phrases a sinking ship used in various phrases to describe an organization or endeavor that is failing, usually in the context of criticizing someone for leaving it. "they have fled like rats from a sinking ship" take ship set off on a voyage by ship; embark. "finally, he took ship for Boston" that ship has sailed used in reference to an opportunity that has passed or a situation that can no longer be changed. "we're good friends but I don't think we'll ever be anything more to each other-that ship has sailed" when one's ship comes in when one's fortune is made. ship off send someone away because they are unwanted or troublesome. "Eliza is shipped off to boarding school in London" Origin Old English scip (noun), late Old English scipian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schip and German Schiff . ship2 /SHip/ INFORMAL noun noun: ship; plural noun: ships a romantic pairing between two characters in a fictional series, often one that is supported or portrayed by fans rather than depicted in the series itself. "the thing that I loved about the Mulder/Scully ship was that we knew so much about their characters" verb verb: ship; 3rd person present: ships; past tense: shipped; past participle: shipped; gerund or present participle: shipping support or have a particular interest in a romantic pairing between two characters in a fictional series, often when this relationship is one portrayed by fans rather than depicted in the series itself. "I'm still shipping for Edward/Hermione" Origin early 21st century: abbreviation of relationship. -ship suffix suffix: -ship 1. forming nouns denoting a quality or condition. "companionship" 2. forming nouns denoting status, office, or honor. "ambassadorship" forming nouns denoting a tenure of office. "chairmanship" 3. forming nouns denoting a skill in a certain capacity. "entrepreneurship" 4. forming nouns denoting the collective individuals of a group. "membership" Origin Old English -scipe, scype, of Germanic origin.
Where do Shipbreakers sign up?
Then we will have space pirates.
@@dynhoyw A ship is a vessel.
A good way to do this, would be small bots, even nano bots. They land on the asteroid and make larger bots and so on. Then they jettison the stuff back to us. Maybe the main craft that drops them is a huge solar cell to start. If they ever get pure electrical propulsion down they can slow and stear them maybe. Park them nearer. Or 6-8 crafts park and lock on an object and slow it and bring it closer.
For a recent discovery in electrical propulsion see the Popular Mechanics article titled "An Engineer Says He’s Found a Way to Overcome Earth’s Gravity"
The really limited resource is habitable space. That Davida asteroide contains enough material for several Earth surface equivalents of O'Neil cylinders.
mining anything, off planet, would introduce an economic nightmare
been watching Arran for years and bro really don’t miss edit: King Charles type beat goes hard
Except for the title of the video. It's pretty clickbaity.
A fascinating perspective on the role of asteroids in our existence and the potential they hold for our future. Your analysis of asteroid mining and its challenges is extremely detailed, and the concept of using this potential resource to aid our ambitions of space colonization is mind-boggling.
Getting stuff up to space is one of the main issues. Solving that thing is the very first step in our journey to conquer space. We came up with some pretty decent ideas already, fe a space catapult here and around the Moon with a moon base. That way our journeys in our solar system could be so much easier.
Really enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing.
Imagine going to eat and sending an astroid into another country.. only for it to touchdown and be made completely of unrainium and plutonium 😳
3:24 So... eastern europe, about in 1996 - a nice summer morning, suddenly you wake with a pulse of fear.. "WOW! I was so close to oversleeping..." its 5 AM and this time you're going with grandpa and grandma to the corn fields to "whack the weeds" as you might say, and maintain the field. It's a backbreaking manual labor!(well at least for them it was...) We get to the field early and prep for a light breakfast, granny woke up early to prepare it all. As I'm gorging on my granny's milinki with a side of apricot nectar(both homemade...) I notice other people around us enjoying breakfast as well. Then every group(bout 20 or 30 depending on the day, basically almost the whole village) gradually begins to work their land. We call this land "bostan" and every village had one. Every couple of years they move it in order to keep the soil more rich and not deplete the nutrients with continuous strain through growing the same culture there(they rotated mixed bostans with single culture ones). I was a kid back then, no more than 10 years old, but believe me when i tell you.. best.. damn.. time!!!
Thanks for the refreshing stories you provide. Very interesting and entertaining.
Thoughty2, have you ever thought about covering the insane forming of the banana republics in South America
He doesn't do politics......
@@PrairieWolf62 it’s not that kind of republic, it’s just the name of the big banana industries
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@@GarrettB06 Sure, sure, 😀
@@PrairieWolf62 I mean it is… you can look it up if you don’t believe me..?
Ice will likely be the first thing mined. H + O for rocket fuel. Water to drink and O2 to breath.
If the metals are pulled into the Earths core then wouldn't Lava contain large amounts of these elements?
I've heard that space elevators were going to be a thing in the near future, I can't even get my head around that how would that even work? I'm going to have to Google that lmao I love your channel, you bring up the most interesting topics❤
What about crashing NEOs into Mars? Surely mining them there would be a lot easier than trying to mine them with little to no gravity?
That's actually quite a genius idea, i'd say.
@@margusprokuda4973 Im sure smarter people than I have asked it and there's a reason not to, but seems logical to me. I know that there are big groups dedicated to "preserving mars" which might be the reason. We are wanting to study mars as it is now, if we crashed an NEO that contained hydrocarbons, we have forever contaminated future hydrocrabon finds on mars, there will always be a "what if it was from that NEO instead of naturally occuring?"
"I'm king Charles, look at my drip" 😅
skkrrah
they say water on Earth came from asteroids, so perhaps they're looking for a fresh source of water to meet their requirements.. You know, after they scorch the Earth or let loose a super big of some sort...
Thanks for recognizing mushroom eaters as being ahead of the curve on asteroid mining. Interestingly, the mushrooms show no attraction to Mars at all.
⚠ What's with the click bait-y title??
Because they work. obviously, you have never seen a veritasium video.
Every time something like this is discusses, there's one thing that comes to mind. Mining asteroids and bringing the material back to earth would increase the planets mass, how much much mass would have to be added before we would start having noticeable differences in earths orbit?
A ridiculous mind blowing amount. That we could never achieve
Good one. Considering the earth is spinning at 1000 miles an hour, I'm worried that if I walk in the wrong direction I might end up in Leicester.
Do you have any idea how massive the earth is? Everything we have ever built including roads, pavements, buildings, plastic, clothing and machines, all sums up to 1.1 trillion tonnes. The earth weights 5.9 billion times that amount. So if we are ever capable of making a significant difference to earths orbit, then we would already be advanced enough to completely control it at our will
@@strider-pubgmobile757 Everything we ever built on earth has been from materials on earth.
@MiddleAgedSwedeGoesForAWalk well we made a lake so big it had an impact on the earths rotation iirc so a fair amount but probably less than you would think
Great episode as always!¡ Thanks very much!!
Great episode, very informative and captivating!
Here before the assbots!!!😂😂😂😂
lol
nah sadly at the same time.
How has this video got anything to do with the current title: ‘Billionaires are Secretly Bringing Asteroids to Earth and We Don’t Know Why’? I have seen and enjoyed a lot of your videos but this is just clickbait. Sorry.
Well you did take the bait....sooo
I'll agree . Click bait
They did try and brought samples back. Its a start .
Has to be an attempt at calling dibs on mining.
Haven't seen the full vid yet, but it isn't false advertising...they are doing this in order to be able to make it more economical, logistically feasible to have the ability to go 'up there' & mine them. It WILL be a trillion dollar industry. No 2 ways about it. It will be done. Has been done, albeit on a exponentially smaller scale than what is planned
That book The Sparrow by Mary Doris Russell (a fucking AMAZING speculative fiction, one of my favorites) introduced me to the idea of using asteroids for space travel by creating a livable space on the asteroid and burning the fuel contained within. So the asteroid is the ship as well as the fuel. I think that’s an amazing concept!
It is an amazing concept but getting poked by aliens in the nethers makes it a bit of a risk to the bum.
Thoughty you're awesome ive been sub to you for a few years now
Click bate ,bad title
I agree
Great vid as allways. Ty T2 The sound track at the end sounds amazing, can I ask what it's called ?
Thx entertaining and informative.
I just love your humor!!!! Thanks for doing what you do.
Why?
It’s sad that everything related to tech is now directly related to greed
Greed has driven tech from day one. Without the ability to make a profit, most people wouldn't make an attempt
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My grandparents on my biological mother's side own a huge farm in Minnesota. I remember having corn cob fights. Going out to the milk tank in the morning to get fresh milk for the day. It's where I found that freshly cut oaks taste like Quaker Oats. My uncle big John got his hand cut up in a combine. My grandparents on my biological fathers side owned an 80 acre cattle farm in Foyil, Oklahoma. If we got in trouble. We were sent to the farm to work.
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Amazing how some of us think of these "solutions" instead of first controlling ourselves here on the planet we inhabit.
Hey Thoughty2 thank you!
Keep the good work
Before we run out of rare metals, either we need to figure out how to reuse them or make everything out of carbon chains. We waste energy and minerals at an alarming rate.
Yes, you can imagine just how much recyclable materials must be lurking in every city/town dump. I scavenge through the occasion flytip, whenever someone is thoughtless enough to dump a washing machine or fridge near me. I've picked up buckets of copper, brass and stainless steel this way - because other people are generally too stupid to realise that such household waste is still worth money. But think of the other things, the hi-tech stuff, thrown away into grey bins or flung out of car windows, because people can't be bothered to drive to the recycling banks.
But nah that's just a liberal hoax meant to scare us into accepting socialism
The last part of the video basically described the setting of The Expanse.
Hey Thoughty2 you are 2Thoughty 🙂, just been watching another vid on asteroid hitting the Earth and causing snowball earth
need a time dilation device and slow time down in a subspace bubble big enough to encompass the mining operation and asteroid. that way you dont have to "catch" one that passes by and/or alter its orbit. but of course would need people without ties to family and friends to work up there cause time would still pass normally outside the bubble. i think this tech would be more cost effective. but i could be wrong
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Thank you! This was very interesting and answered a lot of questions for me.
Thanks for the video, man, been watching your videos for years, appreciate it
What if we crash a small asteroid into the Moon? We could simply pick up the rubble, transport it back to earth, and distribute it among humanity evenly (or make a few billionaires into quadrillionaires...).
Feeding the algo demons.. nom nom. Thanks for being british asmr learning channel. Much appreciate 🙏 🙌
Very informative video. Thank You.
Ok,. Now I think I've seen this somewhere... The USG Ishimura!!! If not asteroid mining, it's Planet Cracking. Oh the possibilities!?
Have seen so many of your videos lately, that i read the title in your voice. Great video!
@11:35 I was so ready for a calculation breakdown of which kinds of cheese would be profitable.
thank you thoughty2 for all the content, also love the channel and the videos keep up the grind
"Humans are complex creatures." Subjective and debatable I counter that opinion with two words, 'Social Media'. Another drain on resources.
The nature of humans is complex. Social media doesn't change this. It only makes people think it does.
I swear he is saying "Hey, 42 here"
I always thought that !!
I think a couple years ago he actually addressed that, and said he did it on purpose. His little nod to Douglas Adams I believe.
@@johns9652 cool I didn't know that. Thx
Great video, young man. This is a subject that needs a lot of consideration. We either have to get serious about recycling the world over, or we are going to choose between becoming technically impoverished or leaving it to a very few rich or more innovative countries/multi-billionaires to go scraping at a few asteroids (which brings up the matter of expense and possibly ownership rights). It's my belief that we will start by mining asteroids to bring only the most valuable resources back to Earth. But once the 'wasteful' era of that particular enterprise is over and done with (since humans 'unfailingly' manage to mine for one substance, throwing aside another half dozen substances that become useful in later years. Think early days of oil extraction - and the careless way 'gas' was burned off, because it was considered a waste product at the time), only then will asteroids be mined more sensibly, to take advantage of all possible resources. At that time, I think the probability of occupying other planets like Mars will escalate, as it will be more sensible to bring resources 'there' for refinement, rather than doing that job on Earth and further polluting the atmosphete, etc.
Also, you will need people to work in those mines. It would definitely be a struggle to find people that are capable of doing that
Are you asleep? Are don't know what's happing today with Robots?
How much you wanna bet that when asteroid mining starts happening somebody's gonna fuck up and crash one of these big bastards right into terra firma?
Good ending😂 Words of wisdom, for sure!
Loved the video!!
A drill can be mounted to the surface it's drilling. A 4 year round trip isn't bad for a 27 quintillion dollar payday. This video has actually convinced me of the feasibility of asteroid mining.
Interesting and satisfying as always... ❤
We need more spooky stuff from thoughty2
Thanks for specifying "non-avian" dinosaurs. Whenever I hear someone saying "the extinction of the dinosaurs" without such a specification I have an uncontrollable urge to shout "they're not all extinct!!"
Hopefully relatively soon we will be able to transform things from the atomic level or thereabouts and stretch out our resources to seemingly unlimited supply. Like- Hey Siri, build me a castle- Drones and robots come in and turn dirt into an amazing castle. Think of how we can expand all the materials of entire cities. All of that concrete, steel, glass, etc. generative design, stronger structures than we can imagine, new materials, cities on top of cities, underground and in the air, on water. Then we harvest the power of the sun, then other stars, the galaxy, other galaxies. The future will be amazing!
Would never be allowed for the average person people would abuse tf out of it. People turning sand into cocaine and meth is what would actually happen..
Well, I know someone who have been into asteroid mining. It was not easy, but he (with the team) they did land (remote controlled robotics) and mine a bit.
This is very interesting.You explained perfectly.Thanks😊
THANK YOU
I always enjoy your videos in late evenings, when it's just me and my thoughts. Deep subjects presented in a very logical, fun, and entertaining style. Hope you will grow your audience tenfold+. And thank you as well!
9:16 C3PO was in a galaxy far far away. Things were different there ;)
Enjoyed the graphics.
I can already see it: They figure out how to tether an asteroid 300 km long, slow it down…and immediately change its trajectory to straight for Earth. So glad I don’t have children so I don’t have to worry about any of this. Selfish, I know, but we all make sacrifices.
Key advantage of orbital processing and asteroid mining is this: you don't care about pollution, radiation or anything of the sort. And the minerals, metals and materials produced are in orbit, ready to be used manufacturing ships that won't need fuel to leave earth's surface.
Here's one way the human cost can be removed almost entirely, aside from any actual trained astronauts needed for certain roles. Have mining drones do the majority of the work of the extraction and transportation to a mothership designed to refine and manufacture on site. The pilots of the drones are stationed on earth, using a specialized network to reduce latency times down to acceptable enough levels to do the job. The only requirements to operate would be a controller and laptop capable of playing the feed sent to the screen. This would make it so that basically anyone can make money operating the drones as they see fit and/or are capable of operating. So if you can operate 12 drones on your own successfully, then you are free to do so, with some limitations put in place for fairness. This makes it so that the only human cost is the astronauts put in space to do the tasks that require the human touch out in space. Anything that can be automated via robotics is. Of course this all still costs a lot of money too, but comparatively it should be less than trying to house thousands if not possibly millions of humans in space. And the materials for the drones could be harvested on-site as well or nearby to manufacture more when needed due to malfunction/destruction via accidents. (Which is once again another saving grace of using remote operation. Less human cost once again.) It would probably ideally be used best in conjunction with parking said asteroid in the moons orbit, but I have some issues with that in regards to possible sudden rouge asteroids near earth. Still, that would probably be the best scenario for this use case, since it would allow for the network to be as short as distance as the moon, which should make connections 'possible', though maybe not preferable in speed/latency. But again, so long as the pilot can operate without issue, it should be fine until better technology reduces that problem. AI could also be used in the drones to automate them, but this may be one of those things where the human touch is still preferred for safety reasons in case of AI malfunction. Thus the remote operators would still be employed as a fail safe at the very least. This would essentially create a ... near infinite... job market, where the company ultimately profits more the more they can diversify their asteroid holdings for constant extraction. Obviously supply and demand must be obeyed, but ultimately so long as the demand eats the supply fast enough, most of this problem will be averted on its own. I.E. The mothership using its own collected materials to make more drones to collect more materials. The excess of this is what is sold instead as an artificial cap and trade system of sorts, where the main function of the operation is to keep the operation in continuation with excess going towards saleable product for proceeds to allow continued funding of the operation. If one is exceeding the other, rebalance and continue forward. And as for continuing forward: Eventually deep space mining ships will be required, where crew will be stationed as well even if they continue remote operation from the ship. At that point nodes would be set up along the way to allow for earth based miners to continue operation as well, but with added latency per node hop. These ventures would likely be solely sent only for the rarest materials that we just can't find elsewhere. So they would be quite rare operations.
Hollywood warned us about this on Don't Look Up
I thought (due to isotope analysis) that it was discovered several years ago that the water on earth did NOT originate from an extraterrestrial source according to all of the meteors / comets we’ve studied
Thank you... ❤
What about a massive net connected to multiple units with thrusters, the net initially becomes slack on contact but applies counter resistance slowly to slow down the inertia.. thrusters apply thrust in opposing direction based of trajectory impact into the net. Bring the rock to the nearest unit for mining.. Secondary note: Massive net is already going at speeds comparable to the expected speed of asteroid, this way the difference in speed is very minuscule and thus easier to mitigate the impact difference Also this brings in to mind, aliens would never need to harvest our planet if our most valuable resources are plenty more abundant in asteroids…
Lol. Fuel
Why not push a NEO into the moon, and then mine the crash site on the moon? The impact should help crack them open, and the moon should also have enough gravity to build drills on. It seems way more practical than anything else. It would still be a massive undertaking, but it’s a lot more doable.
This reminds me of the book, "The Singularity Trap". It's a decent read that focuses on a guy who picks up astroid mining.
The value is not quite accurate in the sense that increased quantiy of material availble to the market will reduce its value. But astronomical value beyond comprehension nontheless. Great video as always.
Great vid
While I love the forward thinking idea of colonizing other worlds and mining in space. These plans should continue at a very low priority. The mining on our planet has improved. Always more room for that to continue. While the materials used in batteries and other tech are always changing too. At the risk of the beating of a dead equine. I hear these plans and love the ideas but under the circumstances we are way too fast at throwing money, public or private. While not working on the broken health care issues and abused programs that we see increasing. This leaves people out of luck that really need and deserve help. Just a tip of example.There is a bubble with this. That being said. The far off day of colonizing another planet anytime in the somewhat near future could be tantamount to moving from Cleveland to Detroit.
You're just the best!! I love your videos. You remind me of Isaac Asimov and the articles he wrote to let common people know and understand science. This is amazing and you are amazing!
Thank you Thoughty2 You are in my top ten to watch! You Rock! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉