Manufacturing in space could save life on Earth | James Orsulak | TEDxMileHigh
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2018
- You care about the future of our planet. You traded in your gas-guzzling SUV for a Prius and your Keurig for a Coffee Maker -- and if enough of us do that, we’ll save the Earth, right? Well, we are dangerously close to collapsing our own ecosystem and we are running out of time. In this persuasive talk, James Orsulak argues that the only way to really make a difference is to look up. James Orsulak serves as the Director of Business Development at Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company that has embarked on the world’s first commercial deep space exploration. The company focuses on technologies such as rocket propellant, water for life support functions, and construction materials sourced from asteroids. Previously, James spent a decade developing industrial-scale fueling stations on Earth. He is an avid gardener who lives in Denver with his amazing wife, 2-year-old twins and a rambunctious Goldendoodle named Waffles. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I've been saving and investing since 1976 to be ready when some space industrialization companies go public. I expected that to be 20 years ago. I hope I don't have to wait another 20 years.
They already made it, but its not for "public" use, its for VVIP's only.
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Interesting, any financial groups in on the remaining 93%?
Too bad, Elon intended to make SpaceX stay private.
I dont mean to be off topic but does anybody know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?
I stupidly forgot the password. I would love any help you can give me.
Wonderful talk! Space IS the answer to all our problems here on Earth, and the speaker made it so clear. Now we just have to address the purple elephant in the room: what technology will make this possible? Where there is a strong enough will, there's a way. I'm rooting for Planetary Resources!
If my understanding is correct, a bunch of Internet companies own that.
They went bankrupt
Prelude to The Expanse.
The Expanse -- GREAT SHOW.
Fyi, expanse is only as accurate as a "hard burn." Otherwise it makes great Sci fi.
What is The Expanse?
If you like this topic you should checkout Isaac Arthur's UA-cam channel. He has hundreds of video on space stuff, he is a physicist, and goes into high detail on the nuts and bolts of everything to do with space, including asteroid mining, which I believe is the title of one of his videos.
I'm an Isaac Arthur fan, and seeing this video was so promising! Almost every one of Isaac's videos are predicated on the assumption that this very thing happens--manufacturing the materials needed to construct the products of Isaac's dreams, in space.
Ssshhhhhhh. I want a job thanks. Don't go telling everyone else about how to find direction.
Outstanding speaker!!
Love you James Orsulak!!!!
That was GREAT!😮
Old wisdom says "nothing falls from heavens, you have to work for it". Nice to hear it is possible to challenge also this "concept" :-)
I see he's a man of culture as well
*cough
Gundam 00
*cough
It's like watching Elon Musk when he was 5
Empire shall rise again!
Dude is right!
Awesome. Just hope that the working conditions in these spacecrafts factories will be good and don't converge into some Bangladesh like place...
Maria Catarina Bolena In all likelihood the "workers" in the factories in LEO will be telepresence robots with the "operators" on Earth. In the not too distant future the asteroid miners will be autonomous robots with really, really good artificial intelligence.
That would be excellent
Maybe we can use carbanaceous asteroids to make some polymers for some slightly more spacious pants...
In all seriousness, this is a great vision. There's enough material just in small main belt asteroids to build 1000x the earth's land area, cumulatively, of rotating habitats with miles of air above residents' heads and 10s of tons of rock/water/soil under their feet. The first rotating habs will be kilo-habs of thousands, the size of a village, then county-sized mega-habs, and finally, when carbon building materials are mastered, continent-sized giga-habs.
This is an untold story of the inevitable, bigger, better future.
(It is known among a few. The Fermi Paradox is the paradox that any civilization slightly *lower* than ours *will* in less than 500 years expand their population into space into the trillions, and stick out like sore thumb at 10,000 light years...and into their neighboring star systems in a few thousand years with a population in the quintillions. Ergo, if anyone is even just 100 years ahead of us in the 13 billion year history of the galaxy, we should absolutely see them.)
Bryan Seigneur
Sir, where can I read more about the financial and technical hurdles of expanding into space with habitats.
Thank you for your comment
Yeah his pants are bit tight but good legs 🦵🏽😏
No, we don't get all our resources from the Earth. We get sunlight too.
Where would the waste from all the manufacturing go to in space?
My guess: space radiation decomposes all waste into fundamental components. Essentially, space could be the ultimate recycling plant.
We can shoot them straight into the sun. It wont take much energy from there
It would take a huge amount of energy to shoot it into the sun. We are orbiting the sun at 67,000 mph you would have to loose all that energy and come to a complete stop before something would fall straight down into the sun. It's, believe it or not, easier to launch waist into another star than it is to get to our own sun. Much less delta V required for escape velocity out of our solar system than to slow down.
You don't need to come to a complete stop to shoot it into the sun. You don't even need to slow down.
Just calculate the trajectory and fire it at a specific angle which will take it to the sun.
Once it starts getting closer it will deorbit and burn up.
Well at first, we might just leave it there since you'll have nothing but space.....then as time and technology progresses we will find a way to recycle just like on Earth, with the exception being that we will not have to worry about polluting the entire system.....the problem is getting a foothold on the stars, once there we'll make sense of the rest.!!!!
How is living in space and living on the earth different once you remove the atmosphere and gravity? Resources and transportation?and i understand the marketing strategy of a clean living earth and such a environment does make life easier and less of a challenge but why not use up the earth and then move into space and when both are used up and this could take thousands of years and by that time we could have a method of reaching another star and repeating the process. Their is something like 100 billion stars in this galaxy.
The earth is not even closed to being used up.
Jack Hand It’s easier to to fix the problems we have now than continue being wasteful and just go find another planet to make habitable which will take thousands of years
EXCELLENT SPEECH ... but it's of a stretch to claim you work for "The largest asteroid mining company on Earth" when Earthlings still haven't mined a SINGLE GRAM of anything from an asteroid. ... just sayin'
In space, there are KILO-METERS, not kalamaduhs.
i want to purchase an ecopod home in my own quadrant of space...space quadrants are the new real-estate ...now can you build me a space house to save us from further consumption of this beautiful earth???we are gonna flood in 2029 and 2036 we need a space arc for the poor and boats for those who wont go off world.
2050
So you are already mining asteroid's? Tell us more?
By the way it's illegal for common folk to buy space rocks or minerals, but whoever you're working for I'm sure get a pass/eligible.
All control
Hmmm those pants and shoes just don't work together....
WHERES MY MAN TED
I agree with everything he says, but politics doen't know a damn thing about science and space investment..
This guy is smart but for some reason reminds me of a Bond villain
We need to be forcing our governments to spend a significant part of our budget on going into space. That space will give us so many options. We need to override the skeptics without the vision as to me even before watching this guy it is obvious that we are running out of space and resources on this planet. We live in an infinite universe. Every human knows deep down that space is infinite in every direction with infinite resources.
There are 12 million square miles of arable land on Earth(1 acre per person) and that is not going to increase significantly. Yea we can probably double that if we where careful but I hate the idea of the whole world becoming farm land.
To me it would be amazing if we could produce everything in space that we need. We could then turn Earth into a garden of Eden.
He forgot waste management
No manufacturing on earth = no jobs.
No need to worry about jobs. Once enough goods are produced to provide everyone with basic living rations ( housing, utilities, clothes, food) the only work necessary will be assembly and maintainance of products and provision of mutual services. As long as baseline is provided, and women have access to health care, education, and prospect of jobs ( services, assembly, entertainment, enforcement, of world jobs - prospect is all that is necessary to motivate staying in education)the population that you need to find jobs for will continue to shrink. Between extra planetary resources and the shrinking population, the restoration of the environment will become a realistic prospect. Eventually the population might even shrink sufficiently for true informed communal decision making to become possible.
this dude watch avatar and came up with this idea
Isn't it the other way around? The people who made Avatar liked the idea of Space.
An observation.... Seems like in order to be a TEDx speaker, it helps to push the "climate change" sky-is-falling hypothesis at some point, especially the talks given in Europe. As if it's already science fact.
You made a good observation. This is true for many talks. But before coming to a fast conclusion there are some more things to consider:
There is a great consensus among scientists (who are actually working) in the field (I think it actually is around 90%) that man made climate change is a reality. And that is how "science facts" are made. And it's effects are already quantifiable.
Obviously mentioning the very well known problems and the severity of those is a common technique to get some excitement into your talk... unfortunately it does not make them any less valid. I wish it was so.
The consensus about climate change is 97% btw
Earth as a paradise island and heavy industry in space, great idea until you think "Well who will live on the paradise island and who will work in the space mills?" Yeah you guessed it, rich and poor.
This talk as many others does not convince me at all. My opinion is that we don't have enough time for space exploration guys. This will take too long for our necessities. In a few decades, the world will dramatically change; if space exploration and mining can manage in that short period of time would be awesome, but I doubt it.
The space dream is fascinating with all this TV show propaganda that clouds our minds. Colonizing Mars, exploring Pluto and Europa, studying and collecting new data about the mysteries of the universe like dark matter and space-time waves is cool, isn't it? But i wonder for how long they will hide the truth that these dreams will never become true.
We have thousands of years to study these things, don't need to rush.
The scientific community must be at the service of activism against climate change as well as the entire society, if we want to stay below 2 Celsius degrees warming. We need to change now.
At least not fast enough
What's the big deal with climate change? What's so drastic about it?
Enough waste here and bring more in from space
"In our nature??" Go to the natives in Africa & South America who live in perfect equilibrium, look them in the eye and say that
Are you really writing this with your electronic device 🤔
This is wrong in many ways
I understand trying to make your point but using lies and subterfuge to do so does nothing for your position. Instead it leaves your audience with no trust in your opinion. Leave the lies to other hucksters.
Your figures about limited resources are just ridiculous in many ways. For example, just because there are humans on all continents does not mean that they are fully occupied. Not at all. But people who talk about overpopulation almost never talk about the fact that most occupied continents are mostly empty. You commonly hear the term "Fly-Over Country" referenced when you fly coast to coast you see lights only over large cities and the fast majority of the land masses are mostly dark at night.
In addition, you fail to mention that most of the planet is covered by water. That portion of our planet is almost completely unknown to our science. We could easily build under sea habitats and mine areas that have not even been touched. Much more easily than traveling to space.
Not only that but most of the numbers that you are using are proffered by the Global Warming fraudsters who have long ago given their flowers up to their true God, the Government Subsidy. They would not know a fact if it was in a rail road train headed for their car on a railroad crossing.
Likely poor listening comprehension is responsible for your difficulty navigating reality.
He talks about how toxic the production of the phone is, yet gives no answers as how to solve this. Instead his solution is to "poison the air, water, fish, wildlife, food, and kids" of the space station.
This kind of problem solving has only shifted the problems to less visible areas, historical mentalities "I don't see it, not my problem".
The manufacturing would not be done in a breathable atmosphere on a space station inhabited by humans. The factories would be robotic, would only contain an atmosphere if required by the product being created and would be located separate from the habitation station that people would live in. Anyone that would need to visit the factory station for whatever reason could go in full environmental suits, or more likely would use robotic drones manually piloted from their habitation module. Waste materials could be vented to space to allow cosmic rays to break them down, or loaded into special deorbiting pods designed to maximize re-entry heat and totally vaporize the contents, or shunted into a higher, long term storage orbit to await future recycling.
They went out of business, just saying
plan - go vegan
This was a really bad ted talk.