How to Build a Starship: The 2019 Starship Congress
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The biannual Starship Congress attracts starry-eyed believers in humankind’s destiny among the stars. We talk with several of them about their ideas for technologies and science that may help pave the way. Science fiction author David Brin dropped by the Congress and spends a few fun and speculative minutes with us. The September Equinox edition of The Planetary Report is ready for all to read. Editor Emily Lakdawalla gives us a sneak peek. The Milky Way has at least 54 satellite galaxies? Who knew? Bruce Betts, that’s who. Learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0918-2019-2019-starship-congress.html
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| 0:00.0 | How to build a Starship This Week on Planetary Radio |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome, I'm Kaplan of The Planetary Society with more of the |
| 0:10.0 | Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar |
| 0:15.0 | system and way beyond. I don't want to oversell our theme today. The |
| 0:19.4 | attendees and presenters at the Starship Congress aren't building a |
| 0:23.7 | Starship, but they'd like to. |
| 0:26.0 | And Building One starts with a lot of ideas that may seem just as wild |
| 0:30.7 | at the outset. |
| 0:32.0 | We'll hear several, and we'll wrap up our coverage of the Congress |
| 0:35.9 | with the great science fiction author and futurist David Brin. We'll start with the Planetary |
| 0:41.2 | Society's senior editor and editor-in-chief of its magazine, Emily |
| 0:45.7 | Loch Duwala. |
| 0:46.7 | Emily, congrats on yet another great issue of the Planetary Report. |
| 0:51.5 | The paper copy, mine is in my hands as we speak, but of course it's |
| 0:56.4 | available online as well to everybody, whether they are members of the |
| 1:00.0 | planetary society or not, at planetary.org. It's a great issue. There's so much here. |
| 1:06.8 | There's no way we're going to be able to cover all of it. I will say that |
| 1:11.1 | beginning with the cover you have a nice celebration of light sale. |
| 1:16.1 | Not surprising and very welcome and there's some great stuff inside including a nice message |
| 1:22.3 | from our boss, the science guy. I'll also note there's a little |
| 1:26.4 | tiny sidebar here about International Podcast Day which has the logo of my favorite |
| 1:31.1 | podcast Planetary Radio. |
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