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Ah, casually watching a video on YouTube,
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on a computer more powerful than anything humanity could build a few decades ago.
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This progress and all the wonderful machines you take for granted are built on a few rare
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and precious materials with names like terbium, neodymium or tantalum.
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Getting these rare materials from the ground into your devices is ugly.
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The mining industry is responsible for air and water pollution and the destruction of entire landscapes.
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Dangerous chemicals like cyanide, sulfuric acid or chlorine are used to extract the resources,
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harming biodiversity, workers and locals.
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And rare resources are also political tools when countries restrict access to them to get their way.
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But what if we could replace the mining industry on Earth with a clean process that can't harm anyone?
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Well, we can.
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All we need to do is look up.
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Asteroids are millions of trillions of tons of rocks,
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metals and ice, leftovers from the cloud that became the planet 4.5 billion years ago.
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They can be as small as a meter or protoplanets the size of entire countries.
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Most of them are concentrated in the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt,
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while hundreds of thousands more do their own thing between the planets.
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As space travel is becoming more feasible,
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scientists and economists have begun looking at the resources found in these asteroids.
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Even relatively small metallic asteroids may contain trillions worth of industrial and precious metals like platinum.
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And bigger asteroids like 16 Psyche could contain enough iron nickel to cover the world's metal needs for millions of years.
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At current market prices, the rare raw materials alone would be worth quadrillions of dollars.
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Well, not really, but technically.
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For example, there are more than 20 million tons of gold in the ocean's water worth roughly 750 trillion US dollars,
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but filtering out the gold would be so expensive that you'd lose money selling it.
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Right now, asteroid mining has exactly this problem.
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It's too expensive to replace mining on Earth.
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Billions of dollars worth of valuable resources in space are worthless if it costs trillions to get them.
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What makes it so hard?
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The principles behind mining an asteroid are simple.
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The basic idea is to choose an asteroid,
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move it to a place where it's easy to process,
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and then take it apart to turn into useful products.
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Unfortunately, all of this collides with fundamental problems humans have yet to solve.
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Going to space is expensive.
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It costs thousands of dollars in rocket fuel for each kilogram just to reach a low Earth orbit.
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Going further out into deep space costs thousands more.
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We need cheaper space travel to make asteroid mining profitable.
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One solution is to switch from classical rockets to electric spaceships.
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We already use electrical rocket engines for many of the space probes on science missions.
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In principle, we only need to build bigger ones.
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While electrical engines are not powerful enough to fly to space,
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they require only a tiny amount of fuel to go very far once they're in space.
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This means we don't need to spend a lot of money on fuel,
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only to transport fuel into space.
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This doesn't solve the whole cost problem,
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but it makes it easier to start our first mission.
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Now that we have an electric asteroid mining spaceship,
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we need to find the right asteroid and get it there.
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We've already successfully visited asteroids with space probes and even collected samples.
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Still, to make it easier and cheaper,
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Our first targets will probably be near-Earth asteroids.
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Asteroids that orbit, well, near Earth.
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After a few months of travel,
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our spaceship finally arrives at our asteroid.
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Weirdly formed, littered with small impact craters,
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it hasn't changed much for billions of years.
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The first thing that needs to be done is to secure the asteroid and stop it from spinning.
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There are multiple ways to do this,
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like vaporizing material with a laser or stopping the rotation with thrusters.
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Once we have a stable asteroid, we need to wait.
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Orbital mechanics are complicated, but if you push something in the right direction at exactly the right moment,
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you can move very big things with very little force.
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So, we wait for exactly the right moment.
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Our ship fires its thrusters and nudges the asteroid into a trajectory that takes it near our moon.
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The moon is useful because we can borrow its gravitational pull to put the asteroid in a stable orbit around Earth,
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which saves even more fuel.
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Again, the trip takes months,
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but all the time since our ship was launched has not been wasted.
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The first space mining and processing equipment has been installed in orbit and is now carefully moving towards the asteroid.
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The processor works very differently than on Earth.
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Giant mirrors focus sunlight and heat up asteroid rock to boil out the gases.
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Grinders break up the dried rocks into gravel and dust,
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and centrifuges separate dents from light elements.
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Even if we only extract 0.01% of the asteroid's mass in precious metals,
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this is still several times more than you'd get from the same amount of ore on the ground.
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But what now?
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How do we get our precious metals safely back to ground?
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There are a few ways,
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like loading it into reusable rockets that return to Earth from space.
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Or if our processor contains 3D printers,
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we can print a faster and cheaper delivery system.
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Heat-shielded capsules filled with gas bubbles.
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These can just be dropped into the oceans where ships tow them away.
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This could be the starting point of humanity's first real steps towards colonizing the solar system.
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As our infrastructure and experience grows,
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our missions get more and more sophisticated.
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Parts and fuel produced on asteroids don't have to be launched from Earth at all.
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The first mining operation makes the second one easier and so on.
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While the space industry grows and precious materials become cheaper,
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eventually we could stop mining on Earth.
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Even the idea of toxic mining down here might become something weird and anachronistic,
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like having an open fire in your living room.
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Landscapes ravaged by pollution will heal,
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while the technological wonders we're used to get cheaper and less toxic to make.
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None of this is science fiction.
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We don't need fancy materials or new physics to make asteroid mining happen.
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We could start building this future today.
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All we need is an initial push.

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일상 대화를 위한 5가지 주요 표현

  • “소행성이 자원으로 가득 차 있다.”: Asteroids are full of resources.
  • “우주 여행은 점점 가능해지고 있다.”: Space travel is becoming more feasible.
  • “지구에서의 광업은 환경에 해롭다.”: Mining on Earth is harmful to the environment.
  • “전기 우주선으로 비용을 줄일 수 있다.”: We can reduce costs with electric spaceships.
  • “소행성을 안정적으로 확보해야 한다.”: We need to secure the asteroid stably.

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