Peter Diamandis on Space Exploration and ET Land Ownership

[hello8963]

a monoply must be taken over space at all costs because at the rate humans are exploring space we will be to mars in 34 years

[migkid]

well, now you said something that make sense :)

[maddcatone]

lithium, Cobalt, Platinum, Paludinium, Polonium, Uranium, Chromium, Iridium, Gold, Mercury, Iron, then there's harvestable nitrogen (cometary bodies and neptune's moon Triton), Oxygen, Cetyl Alcohol, Methane (from bodies such as titan). Take any mineral/material found on earth and then imagine a near infinite stockpile of them. (with of course the exception of sedimentary materials like limestones etc. which develope from the remains of shelfish and polyps. Everything you could imagine!

[EUROSUN1]

Great upload. Can`t wait for this to happen. Does anyone know what minerals we could mine from Asteroids and the moon besides helium 3?

[GRSG]

It's true. If the opening of the West had been the purview of the US Federal Government, they'r still be trying to decide what to build first, St Louis or Kansas City

[mrdoornbos]

Exciting to see this coming to fruition just a year later.

[WestGuardian]

Why is it that the neo-luddite leftists are the first to comment on these videos? I guess the rest of us are too busy working. Get this: Mr. Diamandis is GROWING THE PIE. No one benefits from space resources right now, and the opening of this frontier by capitalists will provide a heck of a lot more opportunity for EVERYONE than if it is done by Government. He wants you to get rich helping him get rich. The Government wants you to fill out this stack of forms.

[1236bigcat]

Laying claim to natural resources ... the same old story only transferred to extra-terrestrial space. How the West was Won. Why am I not excited? How is this a real pardigm shift? Power confers equivalent responsibility and 'ownership' does little to stimulate responsibility thus far it seems. Why do I think of the same old 'robber baron oligarchy we trusted?

Thanks for the video memebox! I'm just commenting aloud my lack of confidence in mankind, less so with his technology tools.

[maddcatone]

I'm sorry but you're dealing with humans here. You will never get past the claiming of new lands and such. It's what life does in general. It expands and encapsulates everything it can benefit from. Humans are no different. We've been running off the same drive of capture retain and utilize since our primordial inception. We will never get rid of ownership. We might as well use it for betterment rather than retarding our systematic growth. And if privately owned land is the way then so be it.