[Interview] A Realistic Way to Make Space Habitats From Asteroids

January 4th, 2023
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We can build space habitats from asteroids by spinning them fast enough. That's what Professor Adam Frank suggests in a recent paper he co-wrote. In this interview, we discussed the idea, how realistic it is and what technology will be needed to achieve it, what applications it can have and when we can expect something like that.

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  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:35 Meet Professor Adam Frank
  • 02:27 Building space habitats from asteroids
  • 13:16 Materials required to achieve that
  • 18:00 Generation ships
  • 24:52 Asteroid mining
  • 27:29 Exponential technological progress
  • 34:45 Great Realistic SciFi
  • 35:56 Outro

Professor Adam Frank on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamFrank4

Habitat Bennu: Design Concepts for Spinning Habitats Constructed From Rubble Pile Near-Earth Asteroids
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.645363/full

The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion, and Steady States
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab31a3/meta

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