Matt Gialich

You know, one of my ideas, Sean, was actually to

I say this one all the time because it was so dumb, but I followed it up for about a week, was like, could I sell ads?

We all see these famous pictures of Jupiter and Saturn, and you've probably seen the Voyager mission or Cassini, and you don't know what mission they're from, but you see these gorgeous images.

What if it was stamped with Coca-Cola at the bottom, right?

Could we sell it?

And I called a couple places.

I called Red Bull.

And Red Bull was like, no, we're not interested.

I'm like, OK, this is dumb.

But there was two companies before that I had really respected and read a lot about.

And they were called Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries that attempted to go mine asteroids before.

Now, they had two different cases at the time.

They wanted to mine them originally for water to refuel rockets.

And then later on, they started to look at the platinum group metals because of the high concentrations on these asteroids.

So I said, hold on, maybe I should be looking at these old business models and seeing if I have a lower entry point, maybe they make a lot of sense again.

And that's what we did.

That's how we landed on the idea of mining asteroids.

And you did ask a question like, why not just do it on Earth?

Why go to space and do it?

And you'll also hear this argument that we'll say something like, well, we have enough material on Earth to mine kind of forever.