Deep Space Habitats
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Space
"We are home to 10 million folks though we could comfortably house 10 times that and are the largest habitat within two light weeks cargo ships coming in from the vast wispy gas nets. We currently have 200,000 gigatons of hydrogen on hand to feed our reactors based on current consumption which would let us keep the lights on for 200 billion years so we're definitely thinking of the long term here inside our 100 mile wide habitat in space" "With colonization going strong and colony successfully started hundreds of light years away it is assumed colonization will keep going and eventually almost every bit of matter in the galaxy will be an active use or in storage rather than floating around except dark matter but there's
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