Open Space 16: Breakthrough Starshot. Traveling To Other Stars, With Prof. Avi Loeb
Professor Avi Loeb is one of the hardest working astrophysicists in the field, writing a blistering number of academic papers on fascinating topics like the Fermi Paradox, the habitability of other worlds, black holes, and the history of the early universe. He's also one of the people working on the Breakthrough Starshot project to send tiny probes to other star systems.
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
00:17 Our biggest disagreement. The name for Milky Way and Andromeda
02:55 How to prevent losing stars in the future.
03:30 Introduction to Dr. Avi Loeb, the hardest working person in astrophysics
08:25 Breakthrough starshot, traveling to other stars
15:33 How will they communicate back to Earth?
19:15 Why aren't we doing to use them in the Solar System first?
24:48 How will they slow down?
27:21 What kind of camera could we use?
30:13 What could we do to create a laser highway?
34:26 Searching for life is a scientific question
37:00 More water worlds than terrestrial planets.
41:52 Galactic panspermia
44:49 Fighting against our dark energy future.
49:20 Joining the galaxy cluster
51:49 When will we see the first pictures from the Event Horizon Telescope
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