Big Picture Science - Building a Space Colony
Ready to become a space
emigre? For half a century, visionaries have been talking about our future
off-Earth – a speculative scenario in which many of us live in space colonies.
So why haven’t we built them? Will the plans of billionaire space entrepreneurs
to build settlements on Mars, or orbiting habitats that would be only minutes
away from Earth, revive our long-held spacefaring dreams? And is having
millions of people living off-Earth a solution to our problems… or an escape
from them?
Guests:
- Marianne Dyson – Author and former NASA flight controller
- Emily St. John Mandel – Author, most recently of “Sea of Tranquility”
- John Adams – Deputy Director, Biosphere 2, University of Arizona
Download podcast at - http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/building-a-space-colony
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