'Like Nothing We've Seen Before' Psyche the Metal World Featuring Jim Bell 

It's large enough for many people to have it pls share

Ok no one claimed mercury it's closer to earth

Sorry but as you haven't moved it in more than 30 days it is considered abandoned property and may be claimed by anyone who comes along and takes it :P

@@logansmall5148 me going faster than light breaking every laws of physics to claim It

I already have 5 cube sats making it into gas for transport. My freighters are on the way. All your base are belong to us.

Earth is great -- it holds all my stuff! :D

Yeah Earth is cool, it tries to kill me only some of the time.

Earth is the only place we belong. How cruel could a person be to lock their kids under a dome on Mars, let alone a multi generational trip in a submarine? Preservation of humans should not come at any cost. The universe was here long before and will remain long after us, it doesn't care if we're here, and we gotta go sometime. Seriously, If I offered your family a shelter built on the North Pole along with supplies at no cost. Would you move your family and friends there? I like this content for daydreaming, but in reality, we will more than likely blow ourselves up within a decade.

Yea, he really said "most of his friends are from here" :D

WOW, never heard about a concept like this, but it makes so much sense!

That's a great idea!

Beautiful concept... I Love the idea!!! I would propose using multiple starships and creating a multiple spectrum interferometer system... ... infrared, microwave, radio, ultraviolet, visible and gravitational ... 96 Starships in a variable formation with each of them being in a James Webb style... ...would be a incredible leap forward. Eventually growing into a interlocking spherical array pointing outwards would be ideal... but the 129,600 telescopes needed for a telescopic universe monitoring system might be possible using smaller drone satellites that deploy from the starship in a manner similar to the Star Link satellites in support of telescope that you propose... That would allow for a full monitoring system and a large robust high quality system to facilitate a collaborative cohesive system and allow wonderful observations and both professional astronomers and volunteers would be fully engaged... The 96 Starships each carrying 1,400 drones would have a extra 50 drones per Starship facilitating replacements and side projects... Such as... Some spread out vast distances and primarily laser gravity focused with their other systems randomly gathering data... all laser locked together with each other and the drones creating a network of gravity sensitive systems. With others using ladar systems looking into micrometeorites and developing a understanding of the environment. This would create a true space observation system. With a more robust scientific, space development and planetary security platform such as this... We would rapidly develop knowledge and understanding as well as new technology, protocols, processes and procedures leading to advancing civilization and creating true progress.

it';s all very well saying we have an asteroid that is worth zillions but if we tow them back to earth the problem is still getting it on the ground - asteroids = extinction. we have to move into space to make space travel practical, it's already mind numbingly expensive to get off planet, if we live up there - we're already there.

@quitequiet5281 I actually did read the entire posting you wrote. If you'd turn your imagination slightly inward, you might find that there is still plenty to do here on Terra Prime, before we unleash ourselves on the galaxy.

Until you realize that capitalism is antithetical to altruism as it rarely makes money.

Thought provoking? What's the relative speed of the asteroid compared to Earth, and how much energy would it take to just get material from the asteroid to match the speed of Earth so it could be (in theory) just landed on Earth? THAT would be thought provoking, because it's a Fermi Problem. They haven't even bothered to consider if energy requirements are within reason to recover ANYTHING from it. That's step #1. This is just yet ANOTHER scam of BS and hookup. Remember the hyperloop? Remember the Boring company? Where did any of those go? Electric cars aren't even feasible, they use more energy to make than an ICE engine burns over its entire lifetime.

while I don't really believe in asteroids it's still an interesting conversation.

@@ecbrown6151 It's really impressive how you can extrapolate from my simple positive comment what is my opinion about capitalism and its intrinsic flows. I agree though.

@@mattheww797 What does it mean to "believe in asteroids"?

none of this is difficult or technical, if you think it is, then you are really only scratching at the surface...

⁠@@ashleyobrien4937ok mrs Einstein. How is spectra or k type not technical? I’m sure tons of people casually interested in space have never heard these terms.

I like space stuff

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Can chile get some of it

heres a thought,,, what if we send a probe there and discover it is exactly that already?

​@@andyf4292look-in SETI ftw

My personal favorite daydream use for Psyche is as a slow boat colony ship. In another 500-700 years, presuming we as a species 'make it,' we could have the technology and off-Earth industrial cqpacity to 'hollow' it out for materials to build facilities to house and feed and move a few hundred thousand people on a multi-century trip to the Centauri system (or best choice at the time).

@@defective6811 - A problem with slow boating is the infamous "wait calculation". At what point in your journey will ingenuity and technology development at the point of origin surpass the developmental facility of the bottled ecosystem travelling slow, and will that result in a 10,000 year journey resulting in arrival at a destination that's already been colonized for 9,900 years? On the other-hand, a bomb-shelter, armored habitat with 20 miles of thick nickel-iron protection from all the nasty radiation and other dangers of space protecting everything inside, that kind of vehicle could be very advantageous for the exploration of places that are not very friendly to biology, that might be resource rich, but are crap for habitation. A travelling bunker like that could be potentially useful. A bonus to the high nickel-iron content is if sufficient copper is employed at the axis of rotation, the entire megastructure becomes a primitive generator, and as a by-product of being a generator, it would also create its own magnetosphere giving even more additional protection from icky sicky space radiation. Copper rotating around iron, or iron rotating around copper kinda do that. Psyche could also house a residency of MILLIONS of people, while still maintaining substantial forest, mountain, river system, lake, and other "wild" ecosystem habitats in addition to nested layers solely for agriculture. Psyche is natively large enough that the inside inhabitants could have Earth-similar atmospheric thickness, pressure and concentration all the way to the central axis of rotation that could remain in vacuum. Psyche is large enough that passenger jets could fly around inside it (if hollowed out), yet, engineering could facilitate cheap "easy" access to zero G at central axis of rotation with a couple/few hundred km elevator ride. All in all, converting Psyche, or any space rock, even consolidating raw material and building from scratch is a far better investment than flushing valuable resources down expensive gravity wells for wasteful inefficient "terraform" projects on big dumb immovable planets. 100 years could give us a ready to go, fully mature living sustainable ecosystem planted and managed after 50-ish years of mining, building, and "terraforming" the inside of any project asteroid or rotating habitat structure all done by AI managed robot swarms. ... but, yeah, I've thought about this quite a bit. :P

Psyche is 15,000 times the volume of the dinosaur killer asteroid so doing anything with it will take a while.

Yep.

Maybe getting a few samples from it, sure.

The problem is not getting ore or metal to Earth orbit, eventually technology will surely conquer that problem. The problem is de-orbiting the material without extremely serious environmental and/or economic consequences. Mining metals here for metals needed here will be cheaper and more environmentally sound than bringing the resources here from the asteroid belt for a very long time, as will recycling these metals, barring unexpected and unlikely breakthrough tech. An interesting thing about metals is that they are indefinitely and eternally recyclable, the quality of the metal does not degrade with time as happens to other materials such as paper fiber and plastics. Mining in space may be an entirely practical way to obtain resources needed in space, however.

Have you watched Expanse?

@@variator7466 Yes, I have. This is the real world however.

@@gregkelly2145 Awesome show

He has books?

@@johnomalley3795 Yes.

Farscape ftw! *rides away on motorcycle*

Iron is cheap as chips here. It wouldn't be commercially viable to get it from space.

@@stevemumbling7720 yes, but getting iron from here to space is incredibly expensive. I'm talking about insitu resource utilisation, not shipping it back to earth. Sure more expensive elements can be shipped back, but it would mainly be best utilised for building craft for the whole system.

The iron, and other elements extracted there, would not be sent here. Rather be used for on-site manufacturing. Getting that kind of mass out of Earths gravity well and out to the asteroid belt is extraordinarily expensive.

@@ReinReads But you certainly would want to export the nukes assembled on Psyche to Earth. They pay so much for them!

Absolutely unrealistic timeline. We may be mining metal from old impact craters on the Moon by then, such as the (indicated but not yet fully proven) massive metal asteroid under Aitken Basin which is 5x the size of the big island of Hawaii. We won't be doing anything on or with Psyche for many centuries, on such a long enough timescale that by then the metals themselves may no longer be the most valuable aspect of 16Psyche.

Yes. Uranium. And not depleted at all.

@@u.v.s.5583 one day someone will try to deflect it towards Earth in order to exploit the metals and end up shooting it right though us. Imagine what a solid metal chunk like that would do? Extinction Level? More like ‘the whole plant blew up’ level!

@@geordiedog1749 that concept sounds like something out of Starship Troopers 2! “Return of the Bugs” 🐜 😄

@@kamakaziozzie3038 Oh yeah. The bugs were throwing asteroids at the earth!

It not just any rock. It is Metal.

@@JanoTuotanto Thanks for letting me know!

Right! It is metal, but not solid metal. It is an alien probe left here long ago

The large uncertainty is at odds with Dr. Bell's statement, at 3:35, how the mass is estimated: The distortion of Psyche's trajectory on fly by is a function of Psyche's mass. I'm shocked. Have a look at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7375145/ for both the uncertainty and the methods.

What happened to the planet?

@@PetraKann The gravitational influence of Jupiter kept it from ever forming.

@@olencone4005 There seemed to be gravitational influence by Jupiter, a type of shepherding. Are you aware of the Grand Track theory?

it is also a question of what. People who talk about metals in the context of asteroid mining are either trying to con someone or just did not understand, What asteroid mining is good for.

Property rights in the universe are likely determined by whether or not you can defend your claim. In that situation, it’s safe to say you could defend your claim. In reality, it would be so hard to defend as to be a moot point, I think.

??? You say opposite things in the same sentence! It makes my head hurt. If the brain pain caused for all the readers of your comment was combined I think it could kill a herd of camels.@@jamespike5161

Try for a loan to start a mining company, then just work out a deal with one of the established space exploration ventures to use their rockets. Bam it's a no lose situation

It seems like an astroid

lol

@@timedeathe I've...got a bad feeling about this.

The force is strong with you young Bayes 😊

It's not a space station... YET.

water yes. but why would you wanna mine metal?

No that would have rusted away to nothing decades ago

If you want valuable asteroids you need to look for the water content, not for the metal content.

@@MusikCassette You may have noted that I have corrected the quoted estimated value of Psyche ($20 Quintillions). That is not my number. It is the value placed by those far wiser than me. What makes an asteroid MOST valuable? Does that not depend upon the eye of the beholder?