Matthew Swider: What safeguards are we putting into place to protect the planet from space debris with a push for space tourism. He says one of the ways that we could address the man-made debris would be to do an approach kind of like pac-man in space A large space cup is some sort goes and physically captures debris maybe with a netMaybe with other mechanisms a Math with this math. Yeah Pac-man Like some kind of space goat that you can Oh, that's how you're gonna sell it. That's how we're gonna say you got you got to talk to astro scale of some of these companies and tell I mean, I have a better idea.
When will we create a livable habitat in space? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen explore the possibilities of tessellated space structures, artificial gravity, and other challenges with Founder of MIT Space Exploration Initiative, Ariel Ekblaw.
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