Colonizing the Kuiper Belt (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Colonization of Asteroids
As there is little gravity, mining those resources and shipping them elsewhere is easy. It takes less fuel to get off your typical asteroid than it would take to drive a car to the store. Since the sun and inner planets are all downhill in gravitational terms, you can throw mined matter back into the solar system at low cost. All is always deceptive in astronomical terms, as we can say some giant asteroid like nemesis is still only a millionth of Earth's mass. In terms of mining or human scale that is over a billion great pyramids worth of mass - one million times more steel than we currently produce each year.
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