{"id":19708,"date":"2013-04-04T23:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planetary-resources-founder-humans-will-migrate-off-earth-in-the-next-30-years\/"},"modified":"2013-04-04T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:23:18","slug":"planetary-resources-founder-humans-will-migrate-off-earth-in-the-next-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planetary-resources-founder-humans-will-migrate-off-earth-in-the-next-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Resources founder: \u2018Humans will migrate off Earth in the next 30 years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"We Solve for X: Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson on space exploration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVzR0kzklRE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37486\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37486 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trio-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Who wouldn't want to work with these guys? Peter Diamandis, Chris Lewicki and \" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trio-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trio-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/trio.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-37486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Diamandis, Chris Lewicki and Eric Anderson of Planetary Resources.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Can you imagine packing your belongings and hopping on a spaceship to go live on another planet for the rest of your life?<\/p>\n<p>Eric Anderson, co-founder of Bellevue-based asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, certainly can.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson gave a great talk at this week\u2019s Hacker News Meetup, a monthly&nbsp;get-together&nbsp;of geeks who like reading Hacker News. The spaceflight and tech entrepreneur spoke about his company, which has&nbsp;plans to launch robotic spacecraft to mine resource-rich asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>He also believes we\u2019ll be sending people to space&nbsp;permanently&nbsp;within a few decades.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-93293 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20130402_193202-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ericanderson1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20130402_193202-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20130402_193202-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-93293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson speaking to the Hacker News Meetup group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis migration of humans leaving the earth is happening this century,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we do our job right at Planetary Resources, and Elon [Musk] does his job right at SpaceX and Richard Branson does his job right at Virgin Galactic, we\u2019re going to be doing this in the next 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a big statement,\u201d he added. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that there will be a billion people living on Mars in 100 years. It\u2019s going to take time. The colony on Mars will start with a few thousand people, then a few million. But it will be&nbsp;permanent. And from Mars, there are lots of other interesting places to go like the Moon or the asteroids themselves if we build structures inside them that can create artificial gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, right?<\/p>\n<p>Anderson went on to talk more about how these asteroids contain trillions of dollars of materials that can be back brought to Earth. He said mining for the resources is necessary for driving human progress.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79495\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79495 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/arkyd1-300x233.png\" alt=\"arkyd\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/arkyd1-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/arkyd1.png 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-79495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planetary Resources president Chris Lewicki with an Arkyd-100 space telescope, which will help search for asteroids to mine. [Corrected.]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe live on a fixed planet, there\u2019s a fixed amount of resources \u2014 we need to expand the resource base, period,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just something we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anderson also said these asteroids are actually in a&nbsp;good location strategically relative to the Earth and the energy it takes to reach them. Nearly one in five of them in space are closer than the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an abdunance of them out there. In 1995, only one near-earth asteroid was known. Now, there are 594,705 known asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like fish in the ocean,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Planetary team is made up of super-talented people who have led Mars Rover missions and started new industries. There are also&nbsp;several big-names that are backing Planetary, from James Cameron to Larry Page to Ross Perot Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people believe that space access is critically dependent upon the resources in the asteroids, as do we,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson knows that many are skeptical when they first hear about Planetary\u2019s mission. But he says that out of the companies he\u2019s raised money for, Planetary was \u201cby far the easiest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole thing is technically really hard, but there\u2019s something about the way it turns people,\u201d he said. \u201cThey totally get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with his co-founder Peter Diamandis, Anderson gave a similar presentation earlier this year. You can watch it above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previously on GeekWire: Planetary Resources shows \u2018daringly small\u2019 asteroid-hunting spacecraft<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Diamandis, Chris Lewicki and Eric Anderson of Planetary Resources. Can you imagine packing your belongings and hopping on a spaceship to go live on another planet for the rest of your life? Eric Anderson, co-founder of Bellevue-based asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, certainly can. 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