Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base
Notes de l’épisode
Mercury may be the Solar System’s first true industrial world. We explore robotic mines, solar furnaces, mass drivers, mobile cities, and how the innermost planet could help build a Dyson swarm.
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Credits:
Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Graphics: Ian Long, Jeremy Jozwik, Justin Dixon, Ken York, MirageDereve, Sergio Botero
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
0:00 Intro
0:27 The Planet Nobody Mines Yet
3:19 Mercury 101: The Fastest World Around the Sun
7:20 A Metal Planet With a Volatile Past
10:16 Why Mercury Instead of the Asteroids?
13:14 The First Robotic Mines
19:32 Living on the Terminator
21:30 Solar Furnaces and Mercurian Foundries
22:53 Mass Drivers: Railroads to Space
24:26 Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Rotovators
27:51 The First Near-Sun Industrial Base
28:55 What Mercury Builds: Mirrors, Habitats, and Starships
30:20 The Star Forge Phase
31:36 Could We Terraform Mercury?
33:35 Space Industry
34:35 Should We Preserve a Dead World?
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