@@liamferrante3721 I wouldn't exactly call him a crackpot (when I say a crackpot, I imagine a homeless guy former junky blabbing about all the aliens who have abducted him over the years, stuff like that) - Elon is undoubtedly a smart and talented guy, but regarding his business - the only truly successful one (in terms of delivering a useful product/service) - Space X - is a military project. Others are mostly based on hype, and they serve only one purpose - to inflate share values to infinity and beyond. To add a few notes regarding this utterly scandalous pile of dung of a video: Billionaires are not fairytale heroes - they don't base their decisions on the vision for better future for all humanity but instead on 3 simple motives: 1. get unimaginably rich, 2. get an unimaginable power (mostly through corrupting governments, but anything works), 3. stay unimaginably rich and powerful as long as possible, preferably forever. We will probably never mine asteroids (unless we spread out to the other planets or just give up the idea of living on planets anyway and instead live on city-size spaceships, but both are the thing of sci-fi). We will definitely never mine asteroids for profit, it's incredibly stupid idea even if the launch cost was exactly zero dollars per kilogram - it takes many years to plan a mission to the asteroid belt, a few more years to get there, and a few more to get back. It would take decades to find a suitable asteroid rich enough in valuable minerals and centuries to extract its content and ship it back to Earth. If you show up to an investor with a promise that you'll achieve a massive return on investment in, say, 200 years, let's imagine what the investor will have to say.
Oh bro, what a bunch of hype-based BS! Don't bullshit me you really believe in it!?!
Ik right, Elon is a crackpot
@@liamferrante3721 I wouldn't exactly call him a crackpot (when I say a crackpot, I imagine a homeless guy former junky blabbing about all the aliens who have abducted him over the years, stuff like that) - Elon is undoubtedly a smart and talented guy, but regarding his business - the only truly successful one (in terms of delivering a useful product/service) - Space X - is a military project. Others are mostly based on hype, and they serve only one purpose - to inflate share values to infinity and beyond.
To add a few notes regarding this utterly scandalous pile of dung of a video:
Billionaires are not fairytale heroes - they don't base their decisions on the vision for better future for all humanity but instead on 3 simple motives: 1. get unimaginably rich, 2. get an unimaginable power (mostly through corrupting governments, but anything works), 3. stay unimaginably rich and powerful as long as possible, preferably forever.
We will probably never mine asteroids (unless we spread out to the other planets or just give up the idea of living on planets anyway and instead live on city-size spaceships, but both are the thing of sci-fi). We will definitely never mine asteroids for profit, it's incredibly stupid idea even if the launch cost was exactly zero dollars per kilogram - it takes many years to plan a mission to the asteroid belt, a few more years to get there, and a few more to get back. It would take decades to find a suitable asteroid rich enough in valuable minerals and centuries to extract its content and ship it back to Earth. If you show up to an investor with a promise that you'll achieve a massive return on investment in, say, 200 years, let's imagine what the investor will have to say.