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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Astroengineering - What Kind of Space Architectures Can We Build?

There's a lot of fun ideas here. One of the classic ideas is only in or cylinder or Stanford Taurus. And so these are structures which tend to be many kilometers across that you're building in space, but could potentially habitat millions of people in orbit of the Earth. Of course, you could imagine pulling them. If you, you know, the expanse does a pretty good job, I think of exploring the idea of human exploration of the solar system and having many objects,. Many of the small near Earth objects and asteroids inhabited by mining colonies.

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