AstroForge

They are attempting them currently right now in space.

They're employing these concepts and, So even with that going, you know, backing up a little bit, that drilling into them, they stood up several again, that public public private partnership with Astroforge and other asteroid mining companies through entrepreneurial private sector guys.

Again, sound familiar? Yeah.

to land on asteroids to physically bore into them with modern drilling techniques to detonate them from the inside out to break it up, hoping that the majority of the debris would burn up in the atmosphere.

I mean, just so many different entities to be a part of this planetary defense initiative, including aspects of the the private partner or pirate.

You know, with regards to the private sector, whether it's the Northrop Grumman's, the Lockheed and all these guys, along with Astroforge and these other agencies that are, you know, kind of the Elon based technocratic thing where they're going to.

they're going to mine rare earth minerals and including helium three and all these other things from asteroids and have these multi, multi, you know, quintillion dollar and injections into the global economy based on mining things.

They pulled all these guys together in both 2018 and 2019 to run an asteroid impact simulation drill that parts of an asteroid that broke apart struck off the East coast.

We thought that we might launch a vehicle to bring satellites from deep space to the Leo, and we can start mining from this point.

That's different than Astroforge a little bit.

But eventually, again, after some calculations, we found this mission needing like $20 million or something.

So again, investor told us no.

There's a lot of activity, but it's not mature enough.

So getting back with my people, my people, my space people in California, you know, I have a lot of friends at JPL, at Astroforge, friends at VAST, friends at Planet, and friends at Rocket Lab in Austin.

And so it's like, or sorry, Firefly Aerospace, rather.

Yep.

To help me think through the endless applications, I sat down with a guy who deals in raw physics and enormous scale every single day.

Matt Galich is the CEO of AstroForge.

His company is literally building spacecrafts to mine metal out of cores of dead planets.

He's put two spacecrafts up so far, and a third goes up next year.

I wanted his engineering brain pointed at the next 50 years.

When you operate at the absolute limit of physics, you tend to make people nervous, which is exactly why a British reporter fired shots at Matt, and he said this:

The first line said something like, "Matt Galich, CEO of AstroForge, might destroy the world, and he doesn't care." It's ...

I was like, "This is amazing." So I, like, I sent it to my mom and my co-founder.

But, you know, when I talk to her about the space industry and everything that's going on, she finds it a bit, you know, crazy.

I was telling her about Astroforge.

There's one of those asteroid mining companies.

And I said, there's actually an asteroid that is around quite close to Earth there.