Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Avi Loeb. He's a theoretical

physicist specialising in astrophysics and cosmology, a professor of science at Harvard

University and an author. Humanity travelling to different planets is a huge undertaking,

yet we're already looking further afield. If we aren't to survive out into the far future,

we need to travel to different solar systems, and this presents a ton of unique challenges.

Today, we get to find out about the biggest ones. Expect to learn how Avi discovered and

collected the first ever material from a different solar system that landed here on Earth earlier

this year, whether we will ever send generations of humans on a spacecraft to different stars,

how Avi is planning to propel a craft up to the speed of light within the next decade,

the dangers lurking beyond the edge of our solar system, and much more.

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