Science fiction delights in showing us brave adventurers boarding abandoned spaceships, exploring ancient alien worlds and space hulks, or surviving on planets turned into giant garbage dumps, but how realistic is this idea? And what sort of civilizations and cultures might spring up around such efforts?

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Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds

Episode 201, Season 5 E36

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Isaac Arthur

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Keith Blockus

S. Kopperud

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