Asteroids may serve as future bases and colonies for humanity as we travel into space, but could they also be converted into spaceships to take us strange new worlds around distant stars?

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Using Asteroids As Spaceships

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Episode 379, January 26, 2023

Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:

Briana Brownell

David McFarlane

Donagh B.

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars", "A Memory of Earth"

Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Ultra Deep Field"

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