Journey to Alpha Centauri (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Alpha Centauri or Beta Centaur?
It would seem logical to have purpose-built spin gravity environments back here around our Sun mimicking a planet we want to colonize long before setting missions to those distant planets. A cylinder habitat drum is likely to be far cheaper to build and operate than its spaceship version, which raises two other points. First, is it actually a colony mission from the outset or more of a classic exploration mission or even something else? And second, are we actually going to Alpha Centauri or to Proxima?"
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