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History Unplugged Podcast

Age of Discovery 2.0, Part 6: Will SpaceX Control Mars Like the British East India Company Controlled the Indian Subcontinent?

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The British East India Company is perhaps the most powerful corporation in history. It was larger than several nations and acted as emperor of the Indian subcontinent, commanding a private army of 260,000 soldiers (twice the size of the British Army...

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0:24.3

Go to all four of the UK's biggest breest streaming service and watch the iconic BAFTA award-winning

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0:34.0

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0:47.4

History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories

0:52.3

throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History and Plug

0:57.3

Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange and even counterfactual stories that

1:03.6

made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:19.6

This episode is the final episode in our series Age of Discovery 2.0 and in this episode we're

1:24.8

going to be talking about real estate. Now that might seem like a slightly boring subject when we

1:29.4

have been doing things like looking at off-world colonies, how rockets will let us travel from any point

1:34.6

on earth to any other point within an hour, and millions of dollars of wealth that exist if we

1:39.2

can figure our asteroid mining. But real estate isn't such a boring concept when we talk about

1:44.4

somebody going to Mars and claiming the entire planet for themselves. We've mentioned SpaceX

1:49.9

many times in this series so far because they're very close developing a fully reusable rocket

1:54.5

that could make space travel similar to air travel. And SpaceX has plans to send the first

1:59.0

humans to Mars by the late 2020s culminating in a city on the planet by the 2050s. Elon Musk has

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