[Q&A+] Starships on Mars, Molten Salt Moon Batteries, Observable Universe | Q&A 347

Fraser, we all know the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1! In all seriousness, though, I could see an interstellar spaceship keeping a giant water tank at the very front of the ship that was at least 2 meters deep, and large enough to keep all of its rotating crewed sections in the shield-tank's shadow. That would be a LOT of water, but there are a lot of icy bodies in the solar system.

Finally came over her to listen but i can't turn my screen off while the episode plays. I'll have a bit of a play around while I'm listening to this one but might have go back to youtube, sorry. Love the show etc

The limiting factor for how big a mirror of a telescope can be is how many superlatives you can muster : large, giant, very large, extremely large, overwhelmingly large... ;-)

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Although he made a lot of different and wild predictions, I would say Philip K Dick was the one who came closest to understanding how computers would weird out our world and our consciousness. I remember reading a story in which a guy talks to a computer and asks it to give him ideas for how to write a speech. The way he interacted with it was almost exactly the way you would interact with chat gpt. This was in the 60s when computers were still the size of a small building and you interacted with them through punch cards.

William Gibson predicted virtual reality and computer among other things.