{"id":12155,"date":"2016-02-05T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12155"},"modified":"2016-02-05T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:09:39","slug":"video-asteroid-mining-nina-cooper-tedxharvardcollege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12155","title":{"rendered":"Video: Asteroid mining &#8211; Nina Cooper &#8211; TEDxHarvardCollege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard College astrophysics student Nina Hooper gives a TEDx talk on the potential of asteroid mining:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxinnovations.ted.com\/2015\/12\/14\/spotlight-tedx-talk-how-asteroid-mining-could-help-us-live-in-space\/\">Spotlight TEDx Talk: How asteroid mining could help us live in space &#8211;\u00a0TEDx Innovations Blog<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Imagine a world with ubiquitous, affordable space travel, where getting in a spaceship is no stranger than getting in an airplane. Harvard undergraduate Nina Hooper, an astrophysics student, shows how mining asteroids for platinum could be the way to make space travel cheap and accessible to civilians. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nina Hooper is a Harvard College student from Melbourne, Australia studying astrophysics. She loves traveling and adventure and\u00a0<\/em><em>is working towards what she believes is the ultimate adventure &#8211; going to space. She is also a private pilot, a songwriter and a major foodie. Nina intends to pursue a graduate degree in aerospace and astrospace engineering either in the US or UK.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-TVRtPlFIA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard College astrophysics student Nina Hooper gives a TEDx talk on the potential of asteroid mining:\u00a0Spotlight TEDx Talk: How asteroid mining could help us live in space &#8211;\u00a0TEDx Innovations Blog\u00a0\u00a0 Imagine a world with ubiquitous, affordable space travel, where getting in a spaceship is no stranger than getting in an airplane. Harvard undergraduate Nina Hooper, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Asteroid mining &#8211; Nina Cooper &#8211; TEDxHarvardCollege<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,82,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-future","category-micrograv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3a3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4156,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4156","url_meta":{"origin":12155,"position":0},"title":"Hadron&#8217;s Forge &#8211; an epic space adventure role playing game","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the soon-to-be-released role playing game Hadron's Forge from Arcane Logic: An Epic Space Adventure rpg, that combines elements of Portal and Minecraft into a vast procedurally generated universe with a rich storyline.\u00a0 Explore asteroids, moons, planets, and the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. 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