Harvesting Planets: Space Mining and the Future of Resource Extraction

We often imagine civilizations so immense they can create worlds and colonize galaxies, and yet to fuel those immense engines of creation, they may need to harvest entire planets.

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Harvesting Planets 

Episode 472; November 7, 2024

Produced, Narrated & Written: Isaac Arthur

Graphics:

Ian Long

Jermey Jozwik

Legiontech Studios

Mafic Studios

Mihail Yordanov

Udo Schroeter

YD Visual

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Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Stellardrone, "In Time", "Divine Cosmos", "Red Giant"

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