For All Mankind
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Show Notes
In this episode of "Popcorn Science," we discuss the 2019 series For All Mankind.
Topics
- Science Gripes (6:05)
- Dumbest way to move an Asteroid
- No reaction control thrusters
- Do not need a tower to push
- Spike in a rubble-pile asteroid
- Sending out crew to asteroid while under thrust?
- Living on Mars (14:50)
- Radiation on the Surface, aristocracy live above ground?
- Happy Valley Base near the equator, but ice is near the poles
- Korolev Crater harboring life? No Methane or lava tubes.
- Untethered EVA? Risky.
- Dumbest way to move an Asteroid
- Science Shine (27:08)
- Asteroid depiction
- A dark rubble pile
- Initial contact, asteroid more like a wall than a planet.
- Space is quiet!
- Phoenix station has 0.2g gravity
- Sol is a Mars day
- Johnson / Molly Cobb Spacecenter Details
- Astrobiology
- Methane as a biomarker
- Lavatubes are a reasonable place to look for life
- Asteroid Mining
- Worth the effort?
- Flooding the market with rare earths
- 122g of asteroid for $1B (OSIRIS-REx)
- Asteroid depiction
- Of it's time (52:47)
- Ratings (1:04:35)