The Expanse Season 3: low-g gardening, high-g deceleration, and more poop potatoes w/ Fraser Cain
Past coverage \n\n
We like this show lots! Thus, our continuing coverage:
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- The Expanse: Nick Farmer on conlanging and the intersection of language and scifi \n
- The Expanse VFX: an interview with Cailin Munroe, VFX Producer \n
- The Expanse Season 2: falling into the sun, martian gravity, and human g-force limits w/ Fraser Cain \n
The oft-overlooked actual difficulties of space settlement. Not technology and logistics, but like, how hard it will likely be for the humans doing the job at first. And second. And then for a while after, too.
\n\n Plants in spaaaaaaaace \n\nGrowing fresh food in space habitats. Poop-potatoes. Wide-spectrum LEDs. Self-contained hydroponics/aeroponics.
\n\n Low-g situations \n\nPeople in spaaaaaaaaace. Dealing with microgravity. Bro, do you even lift in space? Eyeball un-squishing. Figuring out how to burp. Fluid-pooling and major injury.
\n\n High-g situations. \n\nTurning people into jelly. Differing human sensitivity to sustained g-forces in different directions. The wonderful engineering concept of the ship with omnidirectional seating that reconfigures on-the-fly for optimal g-resistance (The Razorback).
\n\n High-speed space impact \n\nTurning into jelly and then having your jelly explode your ship, because physics. Relativistic baseballs. Long-haul space-racing and how to be your own butt-wiping pit crew.
\n\n Kinetic weapon diplomacy \n\nNuclear non-proliferation treaties in space. Orbital kinetic weapons and cloaked nuke-ships playing the role of the submarine as deterrent.
\n\n Interstellar highway program \n\nMinimum viable star system bootstrap answering machine. The Fermi paradox. The odds that most of the signs of alien civilization that we might discover would be past.
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- \n\t\t\t\tThe Universe Today Ultimate Guide to Viewing The Cosmos: Everything You Need to Know to Become an Amateur Astronomer by David Dickinson & Fraser Cain: Amazon\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\t
- \n\t\t\t\tThe Expanse Season 3: Amazon\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\t
- \n\t\t\t\tGuide to Space by Fraser Cain: YouTube\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t