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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Space Technology a Threat to Humanity?

"There's like a million ideas. Okay, every time you speak, I get like a million tangents ideas," he says. "What I actually find more compelling recently is to see how we can use space technology to keep Earth livable." The obvious direct ways of doing this would be satellite technology that's helping us learn more about climate change and CO2 emitters. But there's also a future for geoengineering that might be space-based.

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