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

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

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