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for over roots and home the, for example, the dragon's room we have a thought of investing in a spaceship. you might need one someday because the future of business may well lie . in the vast expanses of the universe, someone who might be able to get you safely out of the atmosphere is a lot musk, the tesla boss's company space x. has already successfully delivered astronauts to the international space station
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and getting there isn't even that expensive. at least not compared with the early days of manned space flight masters apollo missions of the $960.00 s. cost nearly $330000000.00 euros a shot a space x. round trip cost, a mere $43000000.00. the economic boom in space is our topic today. here on made the business magazine on t.w. . now long before space was recognized as a higher dimension for investors. people saw the universe as a mysterious and often menacing realm. it was the origin of asteroids that frequently blaze across the sky and sometimes even 4 to earth causing huge destruction. now we know that these celesio chunks of rock are incredibly rich in valuable resources that are difficult to mine here on our planet. forward thinking, entrepreneurs are looking beyond earth because a lot of it out there. here's chris color on mining metals in space.
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that on the 15th of april 2013, an asteroid entered earth's atmosphere over russia. it created a fireball brighter than the sun hankie and it's shockwave injured more than 1000 people for good. just like they so why? asteroid supposedly threat to life on earth. but they're also the reason why some see them as a golden opportunity. this clip was watched millions of times on personal computers and smart files. such small and powerful devices contain metals like gold, silver, and platinum. all these resources are not as pretty. they're among the most conductive and durable and my level of elements hiding
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important for medicine. for aerospace, naphtha and technology. but the painting them is an ugly process and mining destroys entires. ecosystems displaces communities in greek stocks waste. and there's a tragic irony. platinum is used to make solar panels hydrogen in winter bins. the more the world goes green, the more toxic mining meets. our planet is not the only source of the special elements to spearing earth does overstating. my knee may lie in the planet's ultimate threat that asteroids this guy certainly is no longer the limit because he's crysler weiqi.
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he was the co-founder in chief awestruck minor off, but any 3 resources the 1st company form would be explicit goal of mining asteroids. as he never master named after him. so i'm very grateful to have some of the celestial bodies close to earth. i'm kind of will treasure troves old embarking on our very heavy and over time beach sank into a private school. that's why they're so rain on your arse crossed but again, because the actress don't have much gravity that didn't happen on asteroids, and in some cases there are 100 times as constant. which doesn't 15 for example, i'm not sure the best close floor plan. it was just needed to have more plotted on than it's ever been mined. the earth takes 16 cycle
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count, which world said to be worth $720.00 yourself. dollars until now these were just your article because space travel was just too expensive. but that's changing a seat on a space x. walk at least 3 times cheaper than it was a spaceship. he says started a new call to watch. doesn't and to have larry page, the co-founder of google put his wealth behind planetary resources that you're after and you company joined the race to my nostrils. in 2017, nasa announced he would pay a visit to psyche you want she's in the i can stand. she's the one leading as a subsite commission report. thank you, washington. i'm wrong. but although the program is not about the asteroid mining, it could lay the groundwork for a more sustainable future. crazy
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as he sounds, mining asteroids might not only be feasible, but also much more sustainable that mining earth is one which is interesting literature. and yes sign is a researcher who has actually crunched the numbers actually turns out the answers seems to be yes. he estimates that there are fewer necessary to go and bring back one kilogram of latino men would release 150 kilograms of c o 2 into the earth's atmosphere. dressed in mining generates 40000 kilograms of c, which you saw stored mining could be hundreds times less polluting. essentially, the main reason is there's almost no other substance you can mine, which generates that much greenhouse gas and outsourcing mining to space could
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decrease pollution on earth. but there is an economic problem long term as a gigantic in terms of economic problem. a problem if you mine like 5 times of the path you have on earth right now, means that the market prices were going crash. you can sell of the much more price, which means you diminishing your profit margin. so your operating your infrastructure, their loss, and that makes a really unattractive for investors. carbon taxes in new technologies could change this equation. but it would still take several years for space mining to become profitable. investors decided to not wait for long. the world doesn't quite support a business model that takes more than a $100000000.00 and more than 10 years to, to make a return on that investment and maybe a trip. if you just company feel to tweeze enough funds, forcing you to abandon its call of mining asteroids,
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just like in california, flash space miners do not realize their dream of out of the small 12 planetary resources didn't succeed in their ultimate goal to mine asteroids. but i think it succeeded in a lot of ways the steps to get there. there wasn't much gold in california after all. yesterday said they're succeeding something else in the rush to get to different period, they created the infrastructure that accelerated the development of the west. today, space miners are doing something similar. we are as a world, a lot closer to using resources from space than we were when the company was founded in 2009, you know, you know how to get a degree but we could make it there. and i think in some ways the
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new inventions can make space mining economical just a few decades ago. the very technology you're using to watch these videos seemed impossible. now we can use satellites to be in the internet everywhere on the planet 101520 years. a lot can happen. one day. money goes from a bit like using candles to the top. you know, most such galactic business prospects will inevitably result in competition between companies and between countries. who do the many treasures floating around in the universe belong to my colleague and noise house has been looking into that question and he's discovered that the matter has been regulated. so it's off
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owns outer space. you might think it's easy. hop on a rocket, land on some celestial body, plant a flag, and it's yours, or rather the country you work for you think again, when neil armstrong planted a u.s. flag on the moon in 1969, that didn't make it american appropriating land in space is actually banned under international law, under the outer space treaty of 1967, more than 130 countries have signed the document, it says all countries are free to explore space, but not to appropriated for themselves. outer space basically belongs to us all. the treaty bans weapons of mass destruction from space and says its use shall be the province of all mankind. that seems to rule out commercial ventures up there. but the treaty is not comprehensive and has been overtaken by developments. it was
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born of the cold war between the us and the soviet union. nowadays, china, india and the european union are all drooling over the economic opportunity space might represent. for now, there are no traffic regulations. there's no obligation to clear up space junk. there's no international space authority with flight control functions for rockets and satellite launches. each country goes its own way. the odd entrepreneur just ignores the outer space treaty. dennis hope of the united states says he found a loophole. and ownership of the moon he sells plots of land up there. 50000 square meters go for just $39.00 euros 90. you could get a nice certificate staking a claim is another matter. on the internet, you can also buy a house on mars for 890000000 euros. but you can't move in until 2060
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real estate, natural resources, tourism business opportunities might soon abound. but what if some aliens turn up and say the entire cosmos is there? well, if there is life out there, you have got to wonder if we should bother getting in touch. the space around our planet is already pretty crowded enough without physics is from another galaxy. not only is there the junk left over by human space missions past, but it's also becoming overrun with satellites over the last few decades. that number has skyrocketed, if you'll excuse the pun. and 958, there were 2 satellites in orbit and the year 2000, they were almost 800. but last year we crossed the 2 and a half 1000 mark. the number has been growing exponentially and it looks set to keep going. 3 to quieten the new
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era is dawning as commercial enterprises drive advances in space, technology with ambitious projects. elan musk of tesla wants to outdo nasa with his space x. company, and fly people to no not the mood but mars. space technology and space flight are essential to modern life as electricity from the grid. we couldn't do without them and their key to new and future technologies in the european union, 10 percent of economic activity already depends on satellite navigation. the e.u. launched its copernicus program in 2014. its satellites observe the earth from
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orbit. it's a publicly funded venture. the data, the satellites send home will enable the development of new applications. for example, software to enhance the fuel efficiency of ships. new jobs will be created. satellite data can be used to make marketable products. remote sensing solutions is a company based in munich that specializes in environmental monitoring. it's not exactly a high margin industry. copernicus has boosted revenues here as its data are freely available to all the company uses them to create valuable information in the data are free or cheap. the entire process of generating information is cheaper and people are more willing to buy in and we have it. so powerful clients include nature conservation groups such as w, w, f, and
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a number of governments. one focus of the company's work is monitoring the impact of land use and climate change on vegetation. satellites can capture images of large swathes of land vegetation in the sun. hell can be tracked from season to season with astronauts say they have a very different relationship to earth once they've been to the i assess the view from a satellite is a bit similar. we can see how africa is doing or south america. the view from far away enables us to see connections more clearly by the rich on the copernicus, satellites are big and heavy. they weigh tons, it takes years to build them, and each is unique. many components 1st have to be specially developed that makes these satellites expensive, hundreds of millions of euros each unlike
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many satellites, they can be as small as a wine bottle. the advent of small satellites marks a new era. there are a lot cheaper, but still provide important services. planet labs is an earth imaging company in san francisco that already uses many satellites to photograph the globe. students throughout europe are learning to build the little devices. one class of small satellite, nano satellites. a team of berlin's technical university devised the project to deploy 4 of them to enable faster transfer of large amounts of data. they were launched 2 years ago.
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small satellites have the potential to revolutionize earth monitoring, as well as global telecommunications. to start up, smart small satellite systems does what its name suggests. it's a cube sats can exchange precise information about their orientation. so as to point in the desired direction. they cost tens of thousands of euro's a piece in your tooth. it's the miniaturization of electronic components that enable such developments to lytton satellites may be getting smaller, but that doesn't mean their overall performances are declining. one can deploy a lot of small ones for the price of a big one. the company has launched 4 of its cube sat so far, they're flying in formation to test 3 d. typologies for scientific measurements. to do that, they have to communicate with each other,
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negotiate and organize their positioning autonomously. this test is a significant step towards creating intelligent 3 d. satellite configurations. one application could be mapping the ash emitted in a volcanic eruption that would be of great value to commercial aviation. small satellites often put together using standard components. so it's easy to make a lot of them and also to switch out components depending on the intended use of space, x. is planning to send $12000.00 small satellites into orbit as part of its starving project to provide internet to remote locations around the world. big projects like that, spur the automation of satellite manufacturing. it's comparable to what's happened in the auto industry. in this regard, us companies are far ahead of ones in europe. we in europe shouldn't just give up,
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but aim to be players in these markets of it's where the future lies. the economic and commercial potential is going to be huge. because put in c, i got a sort analysts say the space industry is set for stellar growth. revenues in 2018 amounted to $360000000000.00. some forecasts say they could reach $2.00 trillion dollars in 2040. rocket factory, obs buck wants a piece of the expanding space pie. it's developing a launcher for small satellites, a pretty 2 rocket, specifically designed for that purpose. until now, small satellites have to hitch a ride. if there's room. when big launches, such as the area and set off into space. it's not very expensive, but the waiting list can be long.
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but in cost launches a big launcher is like a bus. you have to wait to everyone's on board. a small launcher is like a taxi it to where you want to go more cheaply and efficiently. that's great for creating a small satellite constellation about 100 companies are developing many launchers. many will probably fall by the wayside. 3 are based in germany. ringback rocket factory aims to offer affordable and flexible satellite launches. 10000000 euros a shot compared to 130000000 for an arianne. to keep costs down, its launchers will contain many standard components from the auto industry. but it's designing the propulsion systems from scratch and will 3 d. print a lot of the parts yet
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big launches such as arianna, a very complex and post lots of expensive custom components. they take ages to build. by contrast, our f.a.a. aims to develop and deploy its 1st launcher within just 3 years. will be financially viable with one launch a month. but we want to see a larger we, the whole thing should be so industrialized and automated that it's no longer anything special. flying between braman in munich is not a big deal, but it was a century ago. we want to see the same thing with rockets. flying. small satellite launch vehicles are set to make getting into orbit more affordable, potentially opening up the heavens to a whole range of new ventures. the vastness of space presents another problem for any potential business activity there. the logistics of covering huge distances in a practical amount of time. if any, there was some sort of system like teleportation that works in star trek. but could
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it work? in reality, my colleague has been investigating a long time ago when space ships were made of paper and plastic and it's no good. how did alan minium during the d. materialization process, people and things were magically beamed about in star trek films. how nice would it be if we could be in ourselves around the globe teleportation instead of airplanes and c o 2 emissions? think about how beneficial it would be for the climate along into basic physics and facts. teleportation is no longer science fiction. i'm always surprised about all the weird things that happen for the money where your heart is. a quantum physicist
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at the austrian academy of sciences has excursions into space, travel, and just a hobby work. he explores the weird and wonderful world of teleportation of quantum teleportation to be precise. as a, having watched our trek, for instance, people imagine that you somehow beam matter or even more energy, because that's how it's done on the show that people disappear in the transporter and then reappear on an alien planet. when the similarity is that the system rebuilds the object identically in another place, or what's more at the exact same time or instantaneously regardless of the distance involved. that's how the quantum world works via quantum entanglement. einstein thought it was pretty spooky transferring information faster than the speed of light. so does this mean travelling not only with 0 emissions, but also with 0 delay?
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that's what happens with quantum teleportation. is that really just that you want him information in this system is transferred to another place onto another identical system. about what the matter itself. atoms are photons or whatever it's made of does not get transferred, so it doesn't disappear. but what does disappear is the information it gets destroyed still. so if 2 quanta connected this way, they can exchange information without a moment's delay, but not the matter. it really is just the information. ok, couldn't i just split myself into quanta and send their information to another entangled quantum cloud? i mean, then i would just need to be reassembled correctly, right. let's just say that right now,
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we don't know of anything that would fundamentally speak against it, but it would have to work in a completely different way, but we'll need completely different set ups than what we're creating. now. if i could build a device that could do this and you'd ask me whether i would put myself inside it, i'd say no. so mr spock would probably have to get beamed in a glittery shower of alum in human gray. like in the old days. and don't forget the enterprise at least spread through the universe, powered by an anti matter and hydrogen engine with not even whiff of emissions. by the way, a piece of trivia for you, the words you me up, scotty. whenever said precisely in better form of the star trek, sirius maybe other work with being me aboard
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