Episode 59: Space Exploration & Inequality
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Episode 59: Space Exploration & Inequality
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How should we feel about billionaires pursuing space exploration when there's so much wrong on earth?
References:
Billionaire tax rates - https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
Culture series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
Lex Fridman's conversation with Neal Stephenson - https://youtu.be/xAfdSak2fs8
Sabine Hossenfelder on terraforming Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb0UnogKQeo
Spinlaunch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAczd3mt3X0
Largest comet ever discovered - https://www.space.com/newfound-comet-biggest-recorded-history
World's richest people 2021 - https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
Elon Musk helping fight world hunger - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/11/1052719247/how-6-billion-from-elon-musk-could-feed-millions-on-the-brink-of-famine
Percentage of U.S. who are independents - https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx