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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

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Playing Music in Space

The telematron is a musical instrument that can only be performed in microgravity. The idea was that it's something like a dance or just something like a choreography in space. We don't just have to import cultural artifacts from Earth to make life worth living in space. It gets back to the human question on how do you maintain this dynamical system of flawed, irrational humans such that it persists throughout time?

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