https://relationshipscience.com/person/deirdre-mulligan-61983629 this one seems to corroborate at least

You should, I think if everyone watched him.. they would instantly chill lol. He is our carl sagon (sry spelling off, kinda meh)

fission is current nuclear power, fusion is what we are working on

Fusion is the goal then

Fusion is the sun

Thanks for that G

Yes

Once we have fusion, we can have a decent life for all imo. It’s really the next level of civilization. Like what the internet did for communication.

@Eric Black eh, I'm not actually concerned about it though. I'll long be dead before it becomes an issue and recycling will delay it. Then there's the potential for converting some types of materials into uses for others.

@Atkins thx

Met, we might be 10 years out. We are very close

matter doesn't disappear, but the energy required to turn it back into what is useful for us is way too much

at least until we nail down fusion, and even then

I highly doubt 10 years out. People have constantly said the same about oil yet continued exploration finds new pockets of what ever resource is being sought after.

Either way, our grandchildren will have it and it will be a way to fix the earth. Not to mention leave it, again issiac authors videos are epic on such things.

I would not be surprised to see the first prototype asteroid mines in the next 20 years or so

That doesn't mean we shouldn't be careful. It does mean I don't necessarily buy into the doom and gloom of worst case scenario.

Right, because oil is still the cheapest per investment. Once fusion is online, that’s way different and the next monopoly of energy will be on that tech. Electric cars are paving the way for that now.

It’s also kinda why I feel socialism will win out. The governments ability to make promises to citizens looking for hand outs. “Energy is a right” 2044

i think all the shit we are sending off into space is a bigger danger to depleting our resources than making stuff on earth. At least most stuff on earth stays on earth and you can get some of that material back once the items are no longer useful. doesn't work as well when you send shit off into space.

Not sure what fusion and electric cars have to do with my statement. Oil was an example of how our estimates can continue to be wrong. - a response to your 10 year comment on how long rare earth minerals may last.

G what you mean? We will be able to send resources to earth easy once we are in space.

to make things to send off farther into space

The belt past mars is like, a trillion billion earths worth of “stuff”

yes, and i imagine more power we can produce, the quicker we use stuff

still, once we have enough power to convert any matter into other matter, its not really a big concern

Now I’m begging you, watch Issiac lmao. He’s such a big picture dude and breaks down things realistically. Like why we need super materials and how we could make a ring world. Humans will look back at us with our WiFi, like we were full retards lol

then you can have like 100 recycle rate

The problem is, is the asteriod belt filled with the right "Stuff" needed for deep space explorations?

@Eric Black like how we look back out ourselves today?

Yeah

The “stuff” in the belt could make more stuff then we might ever need.

Like, life of sun ya know?

i'm waiting until we cannibalize the moon then go "oh.... so THATS what it did for our ecosystem"

We already know what the moon does for our ecosystem

Lmao, the moon does need to be used. We need the moons stuff to get to the belt. But the idea is we keep adding mass to the moon we remove.

i'm sure there is shit we do not know that it does

We could take a .25 mile deep crust from the moon and be fine (math)

hell, we don't even really understand our oceans

And that’s where the rare materials are, from astroids hitting it

funny how exploring space is apparently easier than exploring the bottom of hte ocean