Design Considerations for Interstellar Starship

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• 0:00:00 Intro
• 0:01:12 Summer break
• 0:04:46 Another Einstein
• 0:09:52 Detecting nuclear wars on exoplanets
• 0:11:22 Planets at Proxima Centauri C
• 0:13:38 Eclipses on other planets
• 0:16:03 Upcoming big missions
• 0:22:22 Rotating black holes
• 0:27:25 Abiogenesis
• 0:31:08 Dark matter interactions
• 0:33:02 Orbital collisions
• 0:36:19 Antimatter in the magnetosphere
• 0:37:40 SGL alternative approach
• 0:40:34 Colonizing space
• 0:45:07 Sources of gravitational waves
• 0:47:01 Accretion disks
• 0:49:43 Galactic Lagrange points
• 0:52:30 Starship and interstellar missions
• 0:58:06 Why doesn’t Super Heavy and Starship float
• 1:04:31 Inside of black holes
• 1:06:46 Astronauts in permanently shadowed Moon regions
• 1:11:03 Gravitational waves from dark matter
• 1:12:53 Docking in space
• 1:16:09 Starship mittens
• 1:20:15 Age of light
• 1:23:42 Sun’s magnetic field flipping
• 1:25:14 Earth-size Moon around a Super Duper Jupiter
• 1:27:26 Hollow black holes
• 1:29:47 Dark matter and antigravity
• 1:31:10 Starliner
• 1:34:17 Ancient astronomical constructions
• 1:39:13 Questions from Q&As
• 1:41:45 Regolith problem
• 1:43:53 Mirror Universe
• 1:48:03 Fastest approaching star
• 1:50:04 Refraction of gravitational waves
• 1:51:30 Distance to Voyagers
• 1:52:57 Panspermia
• 1:55:48 SpaceX independence
• 2:00:46 Capitalism in space
• 2:03:38 Cosmic horizons
• 2:06:44 Orion VS Starliner
• 2:09:51 Effects from supernovae
• 2:12:11 Private streaming services
• 2:17:26 Starting fusion in Jupiter
• 2:22:32 Returning Starship
• 2:28:28 ZZ Top songs
• 2:30:12 Meteorites from Venus
• 2:31:16 Pioneer 6

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