Podcaster: Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay
Title: Ep. 455: Colonizing the Milky Way
Organization: Astronomy Cast – http://www.astronomycast.com
Description: Recorded at the Moonlight Hotel in St. Louis during Pamela & Fraser’s Solar Eclipse 2017 Escape event. Today we’re going to be talking about colonizing the Milky Way. Science fiction has misled us and ruined our brains in so many ways. It’s taught us that if you want to colonize or visit other star systems in this galaxy all you have to do is you just hop in your warp-powered space ship, cross for a couple of weeks, arrive, use your transporters, go down… It’s very, very easy. But the reality, of course, is that the laws of physics are a lot more difficult than science fiction has taught us. But at the same time we just wanna know how we’re gonna get to live on other worlds.
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today and Dr. Pamela Gay is a professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. They team up to do Astronomy Cast, a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.
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