From Cosmos to Quarries: Asteroid Mining, Autonomous Drilling, and the Trillion-Dollar Metals Opportunity
In our latest Pirates Only adventure, we trade surfboards for star-ships and jackhammers for ion thrusters, asking a deceptively simple question: what happens when you treat the whole Solar System like one giant opportunity? To find out, I sit down with two founders who are attacking humanity’s metals bottleneck from opposite directions.
Matthew Gialich, co-founder & CEO of AstroForge, believes platinum-group metals are too valuable to keep digging out of Earth's diesel-powered pits. His answer is to send small, replicable spacecraft to near-Earth asteroids, vaporize the regolith…
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