#64 "Passengers" Real Science. Interview with Dr. John Bradford
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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"Passengers" Real Science. Interview with Dr. John Bradford
Art Of Living Interview Series
The movie "Passengers" is about the very real possibility of traveling to a new home around another star, or known as an exoplanet. It's fascinating to discover the real science behind that – to see how astronomers are discovering exoplanets and and finding ways that what we imagine could someday become a reality."
Today's guest is Dr. John Bradford, and he's doing just that...Dr. Bradford's firm, "Spaceworks," based in Atlanta, Georgia, is an engineering firm focused on future space exploration technologies, and working on the film 'Passengers' about the movie's depiction of exoplanets and human hibernation relate to current research and projects, and informing us of the realities behind some of the movie's themes, and making this a reality.
This is a wonderful movie, based on "hard science," and exactly what we should be seeing. My congratulations to cast, crew, SONY, NASA, and Spaceworks, for an excellent film.
Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | The movie Passengers is about the very real possibility of traveling to a new home around another star, also known as an exoplanet. |
| 0:10.0 | It's fascinating to discover the real science behind that to see how astronomers are |
| 0:17.0 | discovering exoplanets and finding ways that what we imagine could someday become a reality. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm your host Paul Volk Zang. |
| 0:28.0 | As part of our passengers movie series, |
| 0:31.3 | today we're talking to John Bradford. Dr Bradford is the |
| 0:35.7 | CEO of Space Works. Space Works is an Atlanta-based engineering firm that in cooperation with NASA is focused on the future |
| 0:46.5 | of space exploration technologies and Dr Bradford has done specific work on the film Passengers about the movie's |
| 0:55.0 | depiction of exoplanets and human hibernation all related to current |
| 1:02.2 | research and projects at Space Works. |
| 1:06.0 | Dr Bradford is joining us today to inform us of the realities behind some of the movies |
| 1:11.0 | themes and making all of this reality. |
| 1:15.0 | Join me and welcoming Dr. John Bradford. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, Dr. John Bradford, thanks so much for joining us today on the show. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, thank you. Good to be here. Bradford, thanks so much for joining us today on the show. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 1:23.6 | Good to be here. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, and here, by here, you mean Space Works, and Space Works has a contract |
| 1:31.6 | with NASA, and it's through that contractual relationship that you've done |
| 1:36.9 | some work on a new movie that's called passengers that is coming out next week and we're happy to be |
| 1:46.1 | talking to you of course but maybe you could tell us a little bit about your |
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