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SPACE GREED: Coveting, controlling, and carving up the cosmos.
Space is home to crucial resources, important discoveries, and big potential profit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Will it ever make sense to use outer space to offshore human pollution and waste?
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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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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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Between advanced satellites and tons of precious resources the future of space exploration looks to be highly profitable.
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The unique properties of space make it ideal for some world-changing and unique scientific experiments.
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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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Resources are tight in space. Everything that goes up there has mass and therefore a cost.
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Survival anywhere requires that we adapt to our surroundings but how will humans adapt to survive in space?
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