Asteroid Mining – A Fast Way to Get Rich?

Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: It’s an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000 documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: Asteroids might be packed with rare Earth minerals such as platinum. That sounds like a great way to get rich! In this video I talk about what technologies for asteroid mining are currently being investigated, for example mining with bacteria. Yes, bacteria. I know this sounds crazy, but turns out it isn’t. Correction to the text in the background at 6 mins 12 seconds: It should read “Copper“ not “Carbon“. What I say is correct. 0:00 Intro 0:31 Sponsor Message 1:21 What asteroids are worth mining? 4:22 How do you mine an asteroid? 7:48 Is asteroid mining legal? 8:48 Research and industry interest 10:02 Open problems and conclusions