Should we disassemble Mercury for resources?

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In the video below, the part about cannibalizing Mercury starts at 7:43 and lasts until 8:13, just 30 seconds long. The entire video lasts 15:22:


AstroFocus, Feb 5, 2018

The Kardashev Scale & Dyson Spheres

An exploration of the Kardashev scale and Dyson spheres. It’s possible that in a few centuries Humans may be able to capture all the energy on Earth, in a few thousand years we might be able to capture all the energy from the Sun, and we might be able to harvest all the energy from every star in our galaxy in 100,000 to one million years. In this video, we discuss the Kardashev scale and look in detail on each civilization type, as well as discussing Dyson spheres.

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Astro Focus, Jan 29, 2018

Von Neumann Probes

We often think of colonizing or even terraforming a planet, but how about colonizing every planet in your galaxy, and not by spaceships but by self replicating machines. In this episode, we will be looking at von Neumann probes, discussing many reasons why you’d use them, tied in with the Fermi paradox.