[Interview] A Realistic Way to Make Space Habitats From Asteroids

We can build space habitats from asteroids by spinning them fast enough. That's what Professor Adam Frank suggests in a recent paper he co-wrote. In this interview, we discussed the idea, how realistic it is and what technology will be needed to achieve it, what applications it can have and when we can expect something like that. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 Meet Professor Adam Frank 02:27 Building space habitats from asteroids 13:16 Materials required to achieve that 18:00 Generation ships 24:52 Asteroid mining 27:29 Exponential technological progress 34:45 Great Realistic SciFi 35:56 Outro Professor Adam Frank on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamFrank4 Habitat Bennu: Design Concepts for Spinning Habitats Constructed From Rubble Pile Near-Earth Asteroids https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.645363/full The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion, and Steady States https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab31a3/meta 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Z-hH3-z56cg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)