i will have more news at the top of the hour will we join viewers on the hour will wejoin viewers on bbc one. now on bbc news, click looks to the stars. we meet the pioneers eyeing asteroids as a source of precious metals and the scientists designing space homes of the future. this week, spencer gets to grips with asteroid mining. it ll have the force required to crush your skull. if you are going to make an asteroid climbing robot, make it a killer asteroid climbing robot. he survived though. just about, yeah. also paul is building a new home in space. it s only 99% sure i am a person. oi, on your bike! or not. yes, how do you make cycling safer? here s a clue, don t ride near lara. i think i only want to go cycling in the green bit. and at click construction, it s man versus machine. i dropped mortar, sorry! for the whole of human history, we have had no choice but to live off the land literally. everything that we use comes from planet earth. now, some of those resources
more on those stories that 8pm, but now on deep sea news. click. for the whole of human history, we have had no choice but to live off the land, literally. everything that we use comes from planet earth. now, some of those resources, rare, precious metals, for example, are really useful for scientific and climate research, but they are really difficult to mine. the resources are just, resources arejust, well, running out. all of this begs the question, as we venture into space, how are we going to live? where are we going to live? and what are we going to live on? $5 live? and what are we going to live on? , ., , ., live? and what are we going to live on? ~ , ., , ., , on? as humans we have been exnloiting on? as humans we have been exploiting the on? as humans we have been exploiting the resources - on? as humans we have been exploiting the resources on i on? as humans we have been i exploiting the resources on earth for as long as we have been around, but instead of l
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to defuse the protests. coming up in 10 minutes time, newswatch. but first on bbc news, click. for the whole of human history, we have had no choice but to live off the land literally. everything that we use comes from planet earth. now, some of those resources rare precious metals for example are really useful to scientific and climate research, but they are really difficult to mine. other resources are just, well, running out. all systems are ready. and all of this begs the question as we venture into space, how are we going to live? where are we going to live? and what are we going to live on? so, as humans, we have been exploiting the resources on earth for as long as we have been around but instead of looking down now at what is underneath our feet, we are starting to look up and see what else is out there. ultimately, what we re looking at doing is going to an asteroid, landing on it, taking samples and then, kind of bringing them back. yes, we re going asteroi