Scientists warn people not to greedily exploit the exhaustion of space resources

The scientific community has warned about the plan to exploit resources outside the universe, especially the minerals in the solar system of many companies, because the consequences if other resources are exhausted will certainly be immeasurable.

According to The Guardian , scientists have warned about the need for people to protect the diversity of the solar system by setting general rules about space including planets, moons and other celestial objects, avoiding the abusive exploitation of natural resources and minerals.

Many companies have set a goal of earning trillions of dollars from iron and precious metal mining operations on asteroids.

The scientific community proposed that all human beings must protect more than 85% of the Solar System from the impact of extraterrestrial resource exploitation. In which only less than 1/8 space for companies to exploit precious metals, minerals and other valuable materials.

The upper limit is expected to protect the Solar System from human activity. In addition, the goal is to protect humanity from a catastrophic future when all resources are exhausted.

Martin Elvis, a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said: "If people don't think about it now, we will risk reckless exploitation. And in a few hundred years, we will have to face an extreme crisis, much worse than it is now on Earth. there's nowhere to go ".

Many mining companies have set a goal of earning trillions of dollars from iron and precious metal mining operations on asteroids, along with thousands of tons of water on the Moon. Recently, the UK Asteroid Mining Corporation expects to send satellites to space to search for resources on asteroids near Earth.

Precious metals such as platinum and gold can be brought back to Earth but most of the mining material will be used in space to build a habitat on the Moon and generate rocket fuel. The European Space Agency is planning to build the Moon village with full living space for everyone. Meanwhile, water beneath the poles of the Moon can be separated into hydrogen and oxygen as fuel for spacecraft and exploration robots.

At a rate of about 3.5% per year, humans can use up to one-eighth of the solar system's real resources within 400 years.

Tony Milligan, a philosopher at King's University of England, analyzed how long people could take advantage of the Solar System to exploit resources. Tony said that with a speed of about 3.5% per year, humans could use up to one-eighth of the solar system's real resources within 400 years. At that time, mankind would have only 60 years to stop and avoid exhausting resources completely.

However, the work of exploiting space resources is not as simple as calculating on paper. Exploiting resources on Jupiter, asteroids, the Moon or Mars and some other solid-rock planets is probably the most likely target for mining companies.

Elvis points out that 1/8 of the iron in the asteroid belt is a million times larger than the estimated iron ore reserves on Earth. With this amount of iron, people can use it for centuries. But besides such a huge mining potential, if we don't know how to exploit it properly or sufficiently, everything can disappear forever.

In accordance with the plan, people can begin the plan to exploit space resources in the next 10 years. Once there are pioneering companies that exploit and earn huge profits from there, there will definitely be a space mineral fever. At that time it would be difficult to control the exploitation.

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