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Astronomy 141 - Life in the Universe
Richard Pogge
47 episodes
9 months ago
Welcome to the Astronomy 141 Lecture Podcasts. This is a brief message from me explaining the podcasts, and welcoming new and old listeners. University. Lectures will begin on Wednesday, 2009 Sept 23, and run through Friday, 2009 Dec 4. New lectures will appear shortly before 6pm US Eastern Time each day there is a regular class. Recorded live on 2009 Sep 23 in Room 1005 Smith Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.
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Welcome to the Astronomy 141 Lecture Podcasts. This is a brief message from me explaining the podcasts, and welcoming new and old listeners. University. Lectures will begin on Wednesday, 2009 Sept 23, and run through Friday, 2009 Dec 4. New lectures will appear shortly before 6pm US Eastern Time each day there is a regular class. Recorded live on 2009 Sep 23 in Room 1005 Smith Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.
Show more...
Courses
Education,
Science,
Natural Sciences,
Astronomy
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Lecture 41: Interstellar Travel and Colonization
Astronomy 141 - Life in the Universe
45 minutes 36 seconds
15 years ago
Lecture 41: Interstellar Travel and Colonization
If we ever detect life elsewhere, how will we go visit? This lecture considers the challenges of interstellar travel and colonization. The problem is one of basic physics (the enormous energy requirements of star flight) coupled with the vast, irreducible distances between the stars. I will describe various starship concepts that use reasonable extrapolations of current technologies (nuclear propulsion and solar sails), ignoring for our discussions science-fiction exotica like faster-than-light drives and wormholes. My interest is in the scientific aspects of the problem, not an exploration of speculative fiction. I then turn to interstellar colonization, and how even a relatively modest star-flight capability might allow a determined civilization to colonize the entire galaxy very rapidly. This has implications for how we might interpret the results of Drake Equation type arguments about the frequency of intelligent life in the Galaxy, and leads to the Fermi Paradox that will be the topic of the next lecture. Recorded live on 2009 Nov 25 in Room 1005 Smith Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.
Astronomy 141 - Life in the Universe
Welcome to the Astronomy 141 Lecture Podcasts. This is a brief message from me explaining the podcasts, and welcoming new and old listeners. University. Lectures will begin on Wednesday, 2009 Sept 23, and run through Friday, 2009 Dec 4. New lectures will appear shortly before 6pm US Eastern Time each day there is a regular class. Recorded live on 2009 Sep 23 in Room 1005 Smith Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.