The 100 (pilot): space station maintenance, post-nuclear Earth, and grumpy old men
The particular value of pilot episodes \n\n
We did this once before and had a really good time. Covering pilot episodes specifically and exclusively to get at a high-concentration of scifi ideas and worldbuilding. And now we\u2019re at it again with The 100!
\n\n Free-floating constructed space settlements \n\nAnd their value versus planetary settlements or settlements otherwise on existing bodies in the solar system. Time to develop space settlements and what a dozen individual, national settlements suggest about the state of industry in space before the apocalypse in the show. Inflatables in space settlement.
\n\n Space resources \n\nBoth before and after earth enters nuclear winter. Water, air, hydrocarbons and where to find them.
\n\n Rules and enforcement under extreme circumstances \n\nFreedom vs keeping everyone from dying. Reproduction policies. Simulations for generation ships - maintaining sufficient genetic diversity through selection and control of reproduction.
\n\n Aging equipment in spaaaaaaace \n\nWe hit on this once before in our Seveneves episode. Using landing vessels that have been sitting in orbit for a century. Don\u2019t keep your equipment next to your bananas.
\n\n Nuclear apocalypse \n\nThe 7:10 rule. Human civilization vs survival of the human animal. Nuclear fallout and nuclear winter. Types of radiation and radiation cookie puzzles.
\n\n Post-Nuclear Earth \n\nAncient Roman artillery (ps we said \u201cscorpio\u201d but meant \u201cballista,\u201d whoops). Bioluminescence in a forest.
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- \n\t\t\t\tHow Damaging is Radiation? by Veritasium: YouTube\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\t
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