i think it's good to get started with a brief idea of the visions of, you know, space habitation and colonization that are offered by ela musk and jeff basos. I think speaks to their bigger term plans about going out space. Those are, those are plans that stretch into the ten, 30, forty hundred and 50 thousand year kind of time spans. A, elan musk wants to create a second earth, a kind of back up planet in case something goes uno terribly wrong here on our planet. Ah, he says that humanity needs to establish a presence in outer space, and specifically on mars. His original goal was to start an interest in n
Paris Marx is joined by Fred Scharmen to discuss Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ visions for space colonization, the inspiration they draw from the work of Wernher von Braun and Gerard O’Neill, and what’s wrong with basing our future on those ideas.
Fred Scharmen is the author of Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space. He teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning and is the co-founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems. Follow Fred on Twitter at @sevensixfive.
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