Journey to Alpha Centauri (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Alpha Centauri - Why Are We Going Back to the Moon?
As you get better and better at space travel, interstellar colonization seems an inevitability if we don't kill ourselves off first. The problem with Alpha Centauri as things stand now is that you're not likely to still be alive when that expedition arrives - even if you were the politician who risked your political capital to make it happen. I tend to assume we'll probably have licked the key problems before we even have a Maris colony worthy of the name. And that's the other aspect of this, why are we going to Alpha Centauri?
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