From lunar regolith to metal-rich asteroids, this episode examines how off-world resources could spark the largest economic boom in human history — and what the fuel, transport, and political math actually looks like.

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The Space Mining Boom - How Resources Will Shape the Future Economy
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Editor: Keith Oxenrider
Graphics:  Udo Schroeter
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The Space Mining Boom - How Resources Will Shape the Future Economy

Such a fleeting and ethereal thing, won't even survive being tightly held in one's grasp. And yet, while easily smothered, it never truly dies. It only becomes more real in its absence, and somehow, it always finds its way back to you again.

After all the worldly wealth and power will have crumbled to nothing, all the flames burnt out and all waters dried away, sit down on the last piece of rock, open your palm and close your eyes. It will be there, waiting for you.

The Space Mining Boom - How Resources Will Shape the Future Economy

Isaac Arthur

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