How to Go to Infinity and Beyond
Is the Millennium Falcon really designed to navigate an asteroid field? Is the bridge on The Enterprise an anachronism? I talk with scientists and engineers about which sci-fi ships could actually take us to the stars.
Imaginary Worlds · Eric Molinsky | Daylight Media
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Show Notes
These ships feel like old friends – The Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, The Rosinante. But would any of them actually work in space? I talk with NASA astrophysicist Jessie Christiansen, JPL planetary scientist Kevin Hand and Boeing engineer Eric Primm talk about how we would get to the stars, what those ships would actually look like, why the Millennium Falcon probably couldn’t have made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, and whether the X-Wing fighter should be a drone.
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