[Q&A] Planet Size Limit, Solar Gravitational Lens, China's Telescopes

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How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? How would we approach mining asteroids? How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? What is the size limit for a planet? All this and more in this week's Q&A.

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  • 00:00 Start

  • 00:52 [Tatooine] What is the size limit for a planet?

  • 03:51 [Coruscant] How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens?

  • 08:19 [Hoth] How would we approach mining asteroids?

  • 10:42 [Naboo] How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system?

  • 13:49 [Kamino] Which telescopes did China fund?

  • 15:56 [Bespin] Will we discover what's outside of our Universe?

  • 19:06 [Mustafar] Oumuamua: artificial or natural?

  • 21:39 [Alderaan] Planets caught in binary stars' Lagrange points?

  • 26:12 [Dagobah] What's my take on artificial versus organic intelligence?

  • 28:31 [Yavin] What is my preferred answer to the Fermi Paradox?

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How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? How would we approach mining asteroids? How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? What is the size limit for a planet? All this and more in this week's Q&A.

🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday

  • 00:00 Start

  • 00:52 [Tatooine] What is the size limit for a planet?

  • 03:51 [Coruscant] How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens?

  • 08:19 [Hoth] How would we approach mining asteroids?

  • 10:42 [Naboo] How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system?

  • 13:49 [Kamino] Which telescopes did China fund?

  • 15:56 [Bespin] Will we discover what's outside of our Universe?

  • 19:06 [Mustafar] Oumuamua: artificial or natural?

  • 21:39 [Alderaan] Planets caught in binary stars' Lagrange points?

  • 26:12 [Dagobah] What's my take on artificial versus organic intelligence?

  • 28:31 [Yavin] What is my preferred answer to the Fermi Paradox?

📺 VIDEO VERSION

https://youtu.be/zLCwPNbm6WY

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2023-04-05 30 min
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