Deep Space Habitats
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Astronomy
In a colonized galaxy of half a trillion star systems in the year 1 million AD, there's not likely to be a lot of astronomy left to do strictly for scientific games. So you're all looking around to get advanced notice of war fleets or incoming trade freighters and try to get faster information on distant systems before they arrive. I should note that this is more likely to be how a minefield in deep space would operate rather than a classic bomb waiting for contact. If you do have bombs in space, you're exploding them with the intent of their debris clipping a vessel moving through the area at relative its speeds with space debris. Its own inertia is going to make those fragments nuclear in
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