This Week in Space
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This Week in Space is a podcast about space exploration.
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- 73 (2023-08-03): Lindy Elkins-Tanton and Daniel Suarez talk about a mission to explore a protoplanet core located in the asteroid belt named 16 Psyche.
- 90 (2023-12-08): Ed Krupp, spokesman for Griffith Observatory of Los Angeles, talks about recent history of planetaria and archeoastronomy.
- 122: (2024-08-02): Guest Dale Skran criticizes A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith for being too pessimistic about space exploration. Skran believes they do not have the correct competence as non-engineers to support Mars colonization; Skran argues that Weinersmithsʼs urging to delay space exploration until humanity has improved society is suicidal. [cmt 1]
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- ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-09-15: Personally, I agree that it is rational to be pessimistic about Space colonization; see Aurora (2015) by Kim Stanley Robinson. Earth is uniquely suited to facilitate homo sapiens life and therefore should be protected. Space exploration offers the billionaires who currently dominate global politics a false “civilization restart” option which will leave behind the vast majority of human life on Earth since the huge amount of resources required to colonize another planet must come at the expense of earthbound humanity.
