Asteroids seem to be a treasure trove for future space miners. đ
Some are full of precious metals worth many trillions of dollars and with more copper, nickel and cobalt than the entirety of our metal reserves.
The two mineral deposits measure over a mile wide and could be targets for future space mining.
Both environmentalists and space-enthusiasts want the human species to survive long term.
Is there really a conflict between the two movements?
Here is a short youtube video I did today.
Should we cancel all our space programs and divert all funding and talent to fight climate change as suggested by Prince William? Should only billionaires do that?
Can we do both goals at the same time?
Is there really a resource conflict between space initiatives and environmentalism?
#booktube #authortube #Space #Environment.
Links:
My Amazon Author page: http://amazon.com/author/ronfriedman.
Quora, Spacefaring civilization: https://spacefaringcivilization.quora.com/
Sian Proctor went to space as part of the Inspiration4 mission. Re-adjusting to life back on Earth is not as easy as it seems, however.
An astronomer has proposed a bold model suggesting that the entire solar system is surrounded by a massive, magnetic tunnel.
A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbitâŠ
Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on Kazakhstanâs steppe at 436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency.
They were ferried back to terra firma by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who had been on the space station for the past six months.
âThe descent vehicle of the crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-18 is standing upright and is secure. The crew are feeling good!â Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted.
The 24th Annual International Mars Society Convention is a 4-day event that brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic developments that could help pave the way for a human mission to the planet Mars.
IoT Evolution World magazine announced today the recipients of their 2021 IoT Edge Computing Excellence Awards. This award recognizes the companies emerging as leaders in the growing edge computing spaceâŠ
âInnovation in edge computing is separating the good from the great, pretenders and contenders,â said Moe Nagle, Editorial Director for IoT Evolution. âIn selecting the winners, it is easy to see why these companies and their solutions have risen to the top.â
The AstroAccess initiative is working to advance disability inclusion in space.
Twelve disability ambassadors will fly weightlessly on Sunday (Oct. 17) as part of an initiative to advance disability inclusion in space.
AstroAccess, the latest mission from the SciAccess Initiative, which aims to make STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) more accessible, will fly a crew of 12 disability ambassadors on a weightless parabolic flight. The flight will take off on Sunday from Long Beach, California, aboard Zero Gravity Corporationâs (Zero-G) âG-Force Oneâ plane, which flies in a parabolic arc pattern that creates short periods of weightlessness in its cabin.
NASA has launched the first ever spacecraft to visit Jupiterâs Trojan asteroids.
The Lucy mission successfully blasted off at 5:34 a.m. EDT (9:34 a.m. UCT) this morning on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. An hour later, it returned its first signal to Earth, sent from its own antenna to NASAâs Deep Space Network. Lucy is now travelling at 108,000 kph (67,000 mph) on a trajectory that will orbit the Sun and bring it back toward Earth in October 2022 for a gravity assist.
Over the next 12 years, it will fly past a total of seven different asteroids â a main belt asteroid, along with six Jupiter Trojans. The latter type are asteroids that share Jupiterâs orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the gas giant.
Lucy will visit 8 asteroids over the next 12 years.
NASAâs newest asteroid probe, named Lucy, successfully launched on 12-year mission to visit 8 asteroids early Saturday (Oct. 16).
