Matt Gialich

I don't know the exact number, though, but there's quite a few of them.

US will become dominant in platinum.

In fact, I'm going to say this differently.

3% of global carbon emissions are caused by platinum group metal mining alone because it's so deep, right?

Because it's so deep, it's so hard to access, it requires so much to get it out.

What if I told you a story of the future where we provide it from space at a fraction of the carbon cost to the point where platinum group metal mining on the planet becomes banned?

That's what I think the future holds for mining, especially on these critical elements.

It's like as soon as we can show that there's an economically feasible, reliable way to secure minerals from space, earth-based mining becomes regulated out of existence.

And so what Astroforge can become one day is one of the first regulated monopolies, right?

We can dominate the mineral supply chain and also have laws in place where nobody else can dominate it.

That's how I become the alien emperor.

Are they getting away?

Thank God there was a company called Planetary Resources because with Ted Cruz, they teamed up to pass the 2015 Commercial Space Act Agreement.

I actually don't think that's what it's called.

So space agreement, something like this, whatever.

2015, some space shit was passed.

And what that says clear as day is commercial companies in the United States can mine asteroids and sell the materials for money.

Clear as day.

So from a regulatory perspective, we don't have a concern in the United States.

Now, we do have the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that the UN made, and it has some lines about anything that's done in space must benefit all of humanity.