Space Colonization with Bob #3: The Once And Future Mars
8Hello everyone and welcome to Space Colonization with Bob. I am not a scientist, I just play one on Youtube, but what I am is an enthusiastic amateur who has studied issues relating to space colonization for many years. In this episode we will be discussing Mars as a target for colonization.
And busting people's dreams, man. Busting people's dreams. :-(
In this series as a whole, we will be looking at a broad spectrum of issues in space colonization. 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!" ;)
Space colonization is possible, but it is also extremely hard and so we need to apply ourselves logically to the problems involved.
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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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