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Space Greed

SPACE GREED: Coveting, controlling, and carving up the cosmos.

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About the show

Director: Angel Gonzalez

10 episodes

Studio: Curiosity Studio

2021-2022

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Episodes

Declaring Martian Law

Declaring Martian Law

Space is home to crucial resources, important discoveries, and big potential profit.

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Sol Ownership: Can A Corporation Own The Sun?

Sol Ownership: Can A Corporation Own The Sun?

Human needs have always created opportunities for human greed. And energy might be the most crucial need of all. Could we end up paying a subscription fee for sunlight?

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Terraforming: Can We Build A Planet B?

Terraforming: Can We Build A Planet B?

Once we've managed to get a handle on building structures to help us live on the harsh, dangerous surfaces of other celestial bodies -- why stop there?

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Carbon Costs: Is Space Exploration Even Worth It?

Carbon Costs: Is Space Exploration Even Worth It?

Each rocket that gets fired off has an impact on the atmosphere. Will Earth be able to survive hundreds, or even thousands, of fuel-burning rocket launches every year.

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Looting The Moon For Trillions of Dollars

Looting The Moon For Trillions of Dollars

With NASA planning to make a manned return trip to the moon by 2024, how long until some giant corporation turns moon dust into a cosmic-sized payday?

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Space Cowboys: Who Will Wrangle Asteroids And Save The Earth?

Space Cowboys: Who Will Wrangle Asteroids And Save The Earth?

The next time another huge space rock jeopardizes Earth, will private space companies and their advanced, expensive, and reusable spacecraft be enough to save the day?

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Endangered Aliens: Will Humans Trash Space?

Endangered Aliens: Will Humans Trash Space?

Sci-Fi has always shocked audiences with images of powerful aliens invading and destroying Earth. What if WE are actually the invasive alien species?

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Asteroid Mining: Is The Next Gold Rush in Space?

Asteroid Mining: Is The Next Gold Rush in Space?

The asteroids flying through our solar system contain tons and tons of precious metals, stones, and more. Are the astronomical profits from mining asteroids all hype?

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Arming Space Force

Arming Space Force

In this episode, we explore all the ways in which wars in space might be fought and who stands to make a pretty penny developing space-age weaponry.

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Above The Law

Above The Law

Who decides the law in space? And how will it be enforced?

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Toxic Space Factories

Toxic Space Factories

Will it ever make sense to use outer space to offshore human pollution and waste?

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Suing Our Way to Space

Suing Our Way to Space

Cowboy hat-wearing billionaires have reasons for their multi-billion dollar investment in space exploration but it’s hard to ignore how much money they stand to make.

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Will Satellites Help Us Save or Exploit Earth?

Will Satellites Help Us Save or Exploit Earth?

Our long-term survival on this planet depends on advanced satellites keeping us connected and keeping an eye on the Earth from orbit.

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Space Pirates

Space Pirates

Between advanced satellites and tons of precious resources the future of space exploration looks to be highly profitable.

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Mad Scientists In Outer Space

Mad Scientists In Outer Space

The unique properties of space make it ideal for some world-changing and unique scientific experiments.

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Space As A Tax Haven

Space As A Tax Haven

For the ultra-wealthy, the best part of making money is avoiding taxes. Space could be an astronomical payday, but will all that profit slip by tax free?

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Space & Shelter

Space & Shelter

Resources are tight in space. Everything that goes up there has mass and therefore a cost.

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World Wide Wifi

World Wide Wifi

How will “world wide wifi” change the world again?

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Strange Space Recipes

Strange Space Recipes

Survival anywhere requires that we adapt to our surroundings but how will humans adapt to survive in space?

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