Mercury may be the Solar System’s first true industrial world. We explore robotic mines, solar furnaces, mass drivers, mobile cities, and how the innermost planet could help build a Dyson swarm.
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Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Graphics: Ian Long, Jeremy Jozwik, Justin Dixon, Ken York, MirageDereve, Sergio Botero
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
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0:00 Intro
0:27 The Planet Nobody Mines Yet
3:19 Mercury 101: The Fastest World Around the Sun
7:20 A Metal Planet With a Volatile Past
10:16 Why Mercury Instead of the Asteroids?
13:14 The First Robotic Mines
19:32 Living on the Terminator
21:30 Solar Furnaces and Mercurian Foundries
22:53 Mass Drivers: Railroads to Space
24:26 Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Rotovators
27:51 The First Near-Sun Industrial Base
28:55 What Mercury Builds: Mirrors, Habitats, and Starships
30:20 The Star Forge Phase
31:36 Could We Terraform Mercury?
33:35 Space Industry
34:35 Should We Preserve a Dead World?
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