[Q&A] Planet Size Limit, Solar Gravitational Lens, China's Telescopes

Published: April 5, 2023, 4 p.m.

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How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? How would we approach mining asteroids? How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? What is the size limit for a planet? All this and more in this week\'s Q&A.

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  • 00:52 [Tatooine] What is the size limit for a planet?
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  • 03:51 [Coruscant] How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens?
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  • 08:19 [Hoth] How would we approach mining asteroids?
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  • 10:42 [Naboo] How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system?
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  • 13:49 [Kamino] Which telescopes did China fund?
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  • 15:56 [Bespin] Will we discover what\'s outside of our Universe?
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  • 19:06 [Mustafar] Oumuamua: artificial or natural?
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  • 21:39 [Alderaan] Planets caught in binary stars\' Lagrange points?
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  • 26:12 [Dagobah] What\'s my take on artificial versus organic intelligence?
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  • 28:31 [Yavin] What is my preferred answer to the Fermi Paradox?
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