How Much Gravity Is Too Much To Escape A Planet?

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Rockets fight against gravity to help us as a civilization escape into space. But what if a planet is much heavier? How big and dense does it need to get before a civilization gets permanently trapped and can't go to space?

🟣 Guest: Dr. Sanjoy Som
https://www.bluemarblespace.org/

📜 Multistage Rocket Optimization, Geophysics, and the Spacefaring Envelope of Habitable Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02691

00:00 Intro
01:16 Escaping the gravity well
06:53 Limiting factors
09:47 Rockets
15:18 Can a civilizations get trapped
20:51 Current obsessions
27:09 Final thoughts

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