Space Colonization with Bob #1: Exploration
12Hello everyone and welcome to the first ever episode of Space Colonization with Bob. In this series we will be looking at issues in space colonization. We will be identifying problems, difficulties to overcome and opportunities involved in the attempt to bring life beyond the planet Earth.
Often there have been extremes on both ends of the optimism spectrum regarding colonization. This happens anytime there is something just beyond the horizon of what people are capable of. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, there were those (probably a majority) who said that Man would never fly in a heavier-than-air craft.
There were also others who said "Damn right I can fly, and me and these cardboard wings are going to jump off this bell tower and prove it!" ;)
What is needed is the practical viewpoint of, "Yes it can be done, but it's really effing hard and so we need to apply ourselves logically to the problems involved."
What we will be doing over the course of this series is looking at all the difficult problems involved in space colonization and thinking about ways that they can be overcome. Since there are no shortages of such problems, I think we have enough material to keep us occupied indefinitely. ;)
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Intro bits from the old television serials "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" and "Captain Video and his Video Rangers," both in the public domain.
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