Eric Jorgenson

And I learned this from the founder, like Matt guy, like he's an incredible, uh, on podcasts and they share everything that they're learning.

So I do recommend people check out Astroforge and learn about it, but basically, uh,

We used to think there were only a few thousand near-Earth asteroids, and now with the increase in quality of telescopes, we can see that there are millions, and we can see them with high enough resolution to be able to tell how fast they're moving, what composition they are by the light that they reflect, and how many axes they're spinning on, so how difficult they are to land on.

And then at the same time, the launch costs obviously have come way down and there's a much more rich supply chain of parts for satellites and spacecraft.

And so all those things combined, you know, there was a company 20 years ago that tried to do asteroid mining, but they raised it and spent $300 million without really making a ton of progress.

And now...

These sort of enabling background switches have flipped that changed the context.

So I think we are, you were going to, you know, have metal from space on earth in, in 10 years probably.

And this is the right time to start, you know, in earnest building that company and that capability, but it's nowhere on most people's radar.

They don't appreciate it.

you know, the next leap that they don't appreciate the leaf that SpaceX may, let alone what Starship is going to do, let alone that there's companies like Longshot that are building like ground-based near zero marginal cost launch things.

If you just think about very first principles, you know, to borrow an Elonism, like most of the raw material in the solar system is not on earth.

it is in space.

It's so like most of the economy in the long run is going to end up off earth, not on earth.

Um, is, is a longterm view, but it's also hard to argue with.

Yeah, I think there's a lot of... Books are Lindy, basically.

They've been around for thousands of years.

It's a really unique, powerful format.

There's a lot of studies that say that you remember things better when you read them in a physical form.

Also, we stare at screens so much all day, every day, that sometimes it just feels good to read.