Casey Handmer writes a blog that many of you may already read called, well, Casey Handmer's blog. His posts regularly explore fascinating space topics such as e.g. explaining misconceptions about Starship or how to terraform Mars. We could not possibly do justice to the wealth of topics he’s written about in one podcast episode, but we are talking somewhat of a whirlwind tour through some of his best known posts on space. I think you’ll really enjoy it!

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:30 Casey's blog

3:57 Target audience

4:51 Topic selection

7:53 Lunar base post

8:59 Power delivery to the Moon

12:24 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

13:09 Understanding Starship

17:04 Getting humanity to Mars

21:50 Why come back to Earth?

26:05 Starship use cases on Mars

31:47 Constraints on building a self-sufficient city on Mars

33:50 Terraforming Mars

40:34 Convincing people to go to Mars

44:02 Space babies

51:51 Sci-Fi