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410 |  Listen to the show! | | Aired on November 1st, 2005 | | Guest: Al Globus |
| Al Globus was the guest for this Space Show program. Al's special interest is space settlement and this program was largely devoted to stating the case for space settlement, how it can be done, why it should and in fact must be done, and how to make the case for space settlement with the general public and political leaders. We also talked about space resources, solar power, nanotechnology and its application in getting cheaper launch costs, space tourism including both suborbital and orbital, the U.S. leading the way to space settlement, what it would mean for political and military struggles here on Earth, and much more. Mr. Globus also explained why he was betting on Virgin Galactic to be the winner in the suborbital spaceship field of entries. Al Globus has two websites which are pertinent to this discussion. Visit http://alglobus.net and also http://space.alglobus.net. Listeners can also send questions and comments to Mr. Globus at AlGlobus@pacbell.net. Other topics discussed included in the best space location for implementing a space settlement and why Mars is not that place. Al also talked about why going to Mars is the wrong vision and why in his opinion the present SEV will be unsuccessful. This is a most interesting program you will not want to miss. |
| About our guest... |
Al Globus
Al Globus had his first career with music, playing guitar, bass, and saxophone in rock, jazz, country-rock, and funk bands and attending Berkelee College of Music in Boston. He returned to attend college at the University of California at Santa Cruz and became very excited about Gerard O'Neill's space colonization ideas after reading an issue of Coevolutionary Quarterly. He then went to work at NASA Ames Research Center as a software engineer after graduation. About 1990 he moved from engineering to computer science research and applying evolvable systems technology to aerospace problems. In the mid 90s, a local teacher and Al Globus started the Annual Space Settlement Design Contest for 6-12th grade students. This contest is open to everyone and is still ongoing. About the same time, he and others at Ames started the NASA nanotechnology group, hoping that advanced nanotechnology would radically reduce launch costs. Also, humanity is now developing systems to detect and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread beyond Earth to ensure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.
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