Are we ready for world war II in the boundless resources of space?
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Sounds like science fiction: to move all the heavy industry in space. Ten years ago this idea would have seemed insane, but today it seems very reasonable. Billionaires and the powers that be suggested to gather resources on other planets and asteroids instead of having to gather their remnants and crumbs on the Ground. In only one Solar system resources a billion times more than on Earth. This may be important for the survival of all mankind. But there are a few but.
"the Solar system can support a billion times more industry than we have on Earth," says planetary scientist Phil Metzger from the University of Central Florida. "When a civilization expands beyond what the planet can survive, civilization can do incomprehensible things to us".
Who needs the resources of the Solar system?
As soon as people pumped out of the Earth's resources, growing population, decreasing land, deteriorating climate and every from something's got to give. In any case, this idea is the basis of a new wave of exploration of near space. Now let's see what this wave.
Corporation, Planetary Resources has attracted a lot of money — tens of millions of dollars of funding to develop technologies for extraction of mineral resources on asteroids. However, a little miscalculated the forces, and while her first mission to an asteroid . But rest assured the time will come and it will be held.
One of the richest people in the world, the Creator of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, also relies on space assets.
"the Reason why we should go into space, in my opinion, is to save the Earth". "Long-term fundamental problem is that we run out of energy on Earth. It's simple arithmetic. It's going to happen."
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Even the national American space Agency NASA recently decided to invest millions of dollars in technology that could help in the study of the lunar craters and the development of asteroids. And not only physical resources to solve the problems of our overburdened planet. Solar power plants in space can provide us with almost limitless energy and China .
Who needs space resources?
The earth To move production into space, the billionaires of the Earth will have a lot to do. Scientists have only begun to explore this possibility — even a decade ago no one seriously thought about it. Just five years ago the company Made In Space .
This company in 2018, NASA proposed to develop a system for the production of parts from metals aerospace-grade titanium and aluminum. That is, durable and light metal that are used for the production of missiles and aircraft.
All this, however, is still far from a future in which mastered the Solar system will help humanity to increase the scale of the earth's economy a billion times. We haven't even decided which country will have the right to call those resources their own. If they can negotiate? Perhaps we will have a war over space resources. Climate change and rapid depletion of resources forcing us to look beyond our home planet. I hope we make it until it was too late.
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