this is home massive churches with towers here's the quotes like skyscrapers or. contest of the cathedrals stories of april 12th on g.w. . it will add a bit of. rural. we haven't thought of investing in a space ship you might need one sunday 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 atmosphere is a lot musk the tesla bosses company space x. has already successfully delivered astronauts to the international space station

and getting there isn't even that expensive at least not compared with the early days of manned space flight masses 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 a 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 plays 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 on mining metals in space.

on the 15th of february doesn't 13 an asteroid entered earth's atmosphere over russia. really. created a fireball brighter than the sun hanging a end. of its shockwave injured more than 1000 people. for. just like these show why asteroids was a great 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 phones. such small and powerful devices contain metals like gold silver and platinum all. these resources are not just pretty down and the most conductive and durable and my level of elements. are highly

important for magazine. aerospace. naphtha and technology. but the painting them is an ugly process. mining destroys in buyers ecosystems displaces communities. and greed stocks waste . and there's a tragic irony. is used to make solar panels hydrogen in winter bins so the more the wall goes green the more toxic mining meets. our planet is not the only source of the special elements. the key to spearing earth does have a stake in mining may lie in the planet's ultimate threat and. asteroids. this guy certainly is no longer living. this is chris hill reeky

he was the co-founder and chief awestruck minor off but any 3 resources. the 1st company form with the explicit goal of mining asteroids as he even of an asteroid named after him so i'm very grateful 136 are not in the wiki they made my honor. some of the celestial bodies close to work i'm credible treasure troves. golden flocking all are very heavy and over time they 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 brevity that didn't have what i'm after and in some cases there are 100 times as. much as a 15 for example i'm not sure of the best close floorplan it was this thing needed to have more plotting and then it's ever been mined the earth. takes 16 psyche.

which wald set to be worth $700.00 until now these were just theoretical because space travel was just too expensive but that's changing. a seat on a space x. walk. cheaper than it was a spaceship started then you come to watch. chosen 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. walking. she's in the i can stand she's the one leading side commission. on a point. thank you wash in the rubble. but although the program is not about the asteroid mining it could lay the groundwork for a more sustainable future.

crazy as he sounds mining asteroids might not only be feasible but also much more sustainable demining earth. one which is interesting. and yes sign is a researcher who has actually crunched the numbers. actually it 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 terrestrial 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 decrease pollution on

earth but there is an economic problem. long term. in terms of economic problem a problem if you mine like 5 times of the platinum you have on earth right now means that the market prices were in the crash you can some 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 that 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. we. 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 gear 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 2000 you know you know how to get a degree in space mining. but we could make it there. and i think in some ways.

new inventions can make space mining economical just a few decades ago the ferry technology you're using to watch this video seemed impossible. now we can use satellites to beam the internet everywhere on the planet . 101520 years a lot can happen one day mining girth may seem. a bit like using candles to lift up your room. 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 noir house has been looking into that question and he's discovered that the matter has been regulated so it's off. who

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 appropriate it 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 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 is 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.

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 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 in the year 2000 there 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 widen. the new era

is dawning as commercial enterprises drive advances in space technology with ambitious projects. elon musk of tesla wants to outdo nasa with his space x. company. and fly people to no not the moon 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 orbit

it's a publicly funded venture. the data the satellites send home with 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 they need out 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

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 that 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 their picture 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 the satellites expensive hundreds of millions of euro as each.

unlike 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. steel beams throughout europe are learning to build the little devices one class of small satellite nano satellites a team at 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.

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 the air to stage 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 either 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 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 startling 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 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 after he's put into i got a sword. and almost 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 bug wants a piece of the expanding space pie. it's developing a launcher for small satellites a party to rocket specifically designed for that purpose. until now small satellites have to hitch a ride if there's room when big launches such as arianna set off into space. it's not very expensive but the waiting list can be long.

but in cost launches a big launcher is like a bus you have to wait to everyone's on. board a small one sure is like a taxi it to choose where you want to go more cheaply and efficiently that's great for creating a small satellite constellation. about 100 companies are developing many launches many will probably fall by the wayside 3 are based in germany 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.

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. good stuff to be financially viable with one launch a month but we want to see a launch a week 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 on all sides. 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 and then there was some sort of system like

teleportation that works in star trek because it work in reality my colleague has been investigating. a long time ago when space ships were made of paper and plastic. and this node pounded alan many him during the dimity realisation 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 have an airplanes and c o 2 emissions think about how beneficial it would be for the climate alone in today's physics in fact teleportation is no longer science fiction. i'm always surprised about all the weird things that happen. might know where your heart is

a quantum physicist 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 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.

what happens with quantum teleportation is that really just the quantum information in this system is transferred to another place onto another identical system. about what the matter itself atoms or photons or whatever it's made of does not get transferred so it doesn't disappear. but what does disappears the information it gets destroyed. still. so if 2 quanta are 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 that would just need to be reassembled correctly right. let's just say that right now 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 sped through the universe powered by an anti matter and hydrogen engine with not even a 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 static sirius may be the work with beam me apart.

and that's all from this edition of made see you next time until then good bye and keep watching the skies.

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i'm phil welcome to the program. european medicines agency has announced that there is a possible link between the astra zeneca vaccine and blood clots the drugs regulates and described the blood clotting condition as a very rare side effect that when doctors say that adverse reactions will be investigated further they had this message for people thinking about refusing and asters that it has shot. the benefits of the astra zeneca vaccine in preventing qubit 19 overall outweigh the risks of trying to fix this vaccine has proven to be highly effective it prevents if severe disease and hospitalisation and it is saving lives vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against cope at 19 and we need to use the back scenes we have to protect us from the devastating effects. look at the science behind this if we can lawrence as young as

a virologist and professor of molecular on college and university medical school is talking to us from near the 2nd biggest city and welcome to day w. so what we've heard from the air may is a possible link between the astra zeneca drug and these rare blood clotting disorders we kind of knew that because that's where we were before we thought there was a link and now they're saying there's a possible link can you explain to us how we have moved closer to knowing that there is a link between taking this and potentially getting this condition. you know if this is just mounting evidence really that there is an increased association. an association between. the astra zeneca vaccine and these rare blood clots what we don't know for sure is whether that is calls also you just have to get more data and what you've got is a very very rare a very very rare side effect the evidence is slowly but surely firming up across

europe and the u.k. and the possibility is becoming stronger all the while that there is an association albeit very very rare. they theorize that this could be an immune response about said sir vaccination could explain that to us please. yeah because of this is a very strange form and that's what form of clotting and that's what makes it a bit old because what you're seeing is increased blood clotting but the cells are actually responsible for supporting. a low so you've got this low platelet count and that's sometimes associated with an immune response so sometimes the body your body can mount a bizarre very rare immune response against the platelets themselves your own blood cells and this is what makes this of it peculiar and a bit suspicious because it looks like there is an immune response going on in a few individuals that precipitates and leads to this rare form of clotting and

what we don't know he's are there any other risk factors associated with that but i think it's because of the rarity of this very specific form of blood clotting that makes us really suspicious and and that that is something to do with an abnormal response to the vaccine or possibly to people who've been vaccinated who then go on very soon after vaccination to get kovan has you know coded itself is associated with blood clotting and this is a type of thing you can only sort out when you've got larger numbers and the numbers of cases at the moment are far too small so what this is all about is just be reporters. today we also heard from the u.k.'s vaccine advisory body and they have their medical regulators they fame took on a step further by saying it's preferable for people under 30 to have an alternative to the astra zeneca vaccine what's behind that. if you look very carefully at the data and the balance of risk so what you look at it looked at for

every age group is the balance of risk of getting this very rare form of blood clotting against the risk of getting severe disease and hospitalizations and what you find is the balance of risk is more favorable for older people because we know older people are much more susceptible to the severe consequences of co and younger people actually this is you know are relatively protected and when they get over it they don't tend to get as sick and certainly you know the death rate younger people is much lower so they've made a cut they've come to a conclusion because of that risk benefit analysis if you like that it's probably a for to protect the under thirty's from the possible consequences of this astra zeneca vaccine and provide them when we come around to branson 18 that group with an alternative vaccine thank you so much for that explanation professor lawrence or as young from the university while you. look at the political

ramifications of a.m.a. said decision with lisa he's a member of the european parliament from germany say the your party is also a medical doctor welcome to the doctor so the e.u. has been widely criticized for its slow vaccination rollout to this point how badly is this decision from the a.m.a. going to affect this already slow vaccine rollout. it shouldn't affect as it ought at all of them because 1st of 4 young they said there is of course a benefit of this vaccine it's good to have it but there are these side effects and i think it's important to tell people to troops i think even you may was slow to say that there is a link you know it's obvious in those countries that have a very good one it tearing scheme scandinavian countries but on so germany there

are much more cases than the average population so that there is no link is very unlikely and what we and many exploited mostly of all to us we so it's good to make that clear and ok not everything is perfect in the european union and i wanted the vaccination to be faster but we are in the lucky thank you ation that we have the trinity and for example in germany very clear recommendation of the experts are standing in close to what it is to mix in 8 people below the age of 60 with another thing we have already to what ghana and my own take and we will have jumped an injunction during the next days so there is the opportunity when we manage it right that pace can be just the same as it was dissipated and we will get much more actually specially from my own take this month and next month so it will get better and if we men if this right so this decision will not have

a negative effect would you be in favor of countries avoiding using the astra zeneca vaccine altogether. no i don't think we don't we have evidence you know if we can't trust the data from the united kingdom and i'm not a 100 percent sure but it should be a big problem if you have vaccinated millions of elderly in about the age of 60 and didn't see any problem so in germany we solved the problems with younger women because we vaccinated a lot of younger women and there are lots of problems in young man but if it's not a complete fraud from the united kingdom which i don't expect it's safe for the elderly and. it's an important element of that accidents threat not be so i just want to get in just north of where you're going on in the time that we have left so

how then do we rebuild a trust to end this in this vaccine because the have the has been a lot of controversy over it what now needs to happen as i say to be build that trust we all including turner just heat to tell the food troops and just to create head lines there is a problem with us president has not approved troops there what's the recommendation not to use it for the elderly not because of side effects just because there was not enough evidence to say that it's really protecting the other 3 now we have a very rare side effect so these are the effects of course you can be suspicious but the facts are that it's still a good vaccine and we can me my society effect by giving it to the elderly and giving the trinity of which is available for the younger people thank you so much for joining us dr peter at least a member of the european parliament saying you know what. now to

brazil which has reported more than 4000 new daily deaths from covered 19 for the 1st time approaches pandemic death toll is now approaching 340002nd only to the united states experts say this latest search has been caused by local variants of the virus. which has pushed the health care system to breaking point right when president diables nora was also opposed lockdown measures as damaging to the economy but many of the country's poorest citizens are crying out for help saying that the government's pandemic response has failed them and that without more aid and many risk going hungry. these protesters a sending a message to their government brazil is hungry. here and sao paulo's largest para is open this resident say imagine c. a doesn't go far enough i mean there are going to save them my fear is that my

daughters will go hungry one of them still under 18. this is also my granddaughter and i think to myself well they go hungry and the like but far from up until december the brazilian government provided those in need with around $1000.00 euros per month in 8 community centers like this one have been offering free meals but donations have dropped president both scenarios administration is once again offering help but a more modest amount a community movement known as g. 10 is demanding more. for similar thought since in point ahead of the emergency a lot of 23 year o's is enough to buy a domestic gas cylinder 5 kilograms of rice and one kilogram of beans a family can't survive a month on that it's shameful brazil is a rich country and letting its population go hungry and the pandemic is still out of control brazil is a country in crisis and there's not much light on the horizon. we'll take

a look at some other developments in the 19 pandemic starting in france where the number of patients in intensive care is at its highest for almost a year the country is now in a month long lockdown india has hit another new record number of daily cases delhi mumbai and dozens of other cities reposing curfews to try and slow the soaring infection rate and iraq has logged its highest number of new infections for the 2nd day in a row it was 21000 cases were recorded on wednesday the surge has triggered new restrictions on movement in major cities ahead of the persian new year. most or is making headlines around the world starting in turkey where dozens of people including former soldiers have been sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the failed coup against president turd wants government in 26 states almost 500 defendants have been on trial since 2017 or attempting to seize control of the military headquarters. may in most best known comedians been arrested as

part of a swoop against opponents of february's minute she could. was to was taken from his home in young gone by police and soldiers has been in and out of prison since that taking part in an uprising against a previous military dictatorship. it was experiencing its worst wildfires for almost a decade huge blazes have been spreading across the forest and there in the himalayas monitoring site run air quality in the capital katmandu is the worst in the world international flights are being delayed this thick smoke blanketed the city. a mystery international has told d.w. news it's reviewing its controversial decision to strip jailed russian activists alexina valley of his prisoner of conscience status in february the organization said it would no longer refer to him as as a prisoner of conscience so he advocated the hatred in the past activists accuse the organization of falling for a kremlin smear campaign review comes as the group says mr values in casa ration

may be slowly killing him we spoke with amnesty international secretary-general agnes kalamata and asked what can be done to help him. i'm listing to nationalise initiative as it's been made public a process of review of the decisions he twill be made at the day outcome of that pos is really not being made public when they're when it's finished which should be anytime soon but the key the key mrs year is independently of the eagle center sees of an organisation such as on the student or national and the fact is as an organisation we can been equally saw an exile of the moment as we we would allow 2 months or gold each to be freed in needs to be freed immediately a needs to be protected against and he needs to receive medical care. about from mr international hundreds of hikers in iceland have been evacuated from the site of an erupting volcano after new fishes opened up on the mountain are throwing laugh

or smoke and steam into the air it's plain that provide a huge draw for tourists since they've all kind of brought it into life last secure up to date as your business of the day is to protect. the right to the heart of. the.