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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
Using the Laws of Physics to Detect Major Events
Mercury orbits with a pretty fast gravitational, a pretty fast orbital speed around the sun because it's closer to the sun. But we could put something in Mercury's orbit that would have a slower speed and so it would co-track with the earth. And so this could be useful if you wanted to have a, either a chain of colonies or something like that. You'd probably use something like this to maintain that easy transferability. Or you could even use it as a space where the monitoring system, which we actually proposed in the paper. We can use the space infrastructure if you like the astrophysical infrastructure that's already there to our benefit.
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