Episode Six: Terraria
| Asteroid, Space exploration, Future, Society
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Let’s go live on asteroids!
Mentioned in the show:
- Deep Space Ecology might be the kind of company that sets up terreria for colonists
- Sun of Suns is the first book in the Virga series, a set of stories that feature a society where gravity is expensive.
- Wiki article on the asteroid belt, with details on the different types of asteroids.
- Robert Moses built bridges too low for busses to clear.
- The dam that was built near by Las Vegas was the Hoover Dam.
- Mao-Kwikowski is a reference to The Expanse series of books and TV show
- The inverse-square law states that the farther you go from the sun, the power you can draw from it decreases as the square of the distance.
- A short article on how quantity trumps quality, contains the little ceramics class example.
- Building a KSR-style Terrarium Interactive made for the 2312 book.