Mars

Guest: Dr. John Brandenburg;  Topics:  Dr. Brandenburg's new sci-fi book, The War Of The Singularity: The Human Race is Cancelled… and updates for his theory regarding nuclear bombs having destroyed Mars about 180 million years ago due to traces of Xe 129 in the Martian atmosphere.

Guest:  Sir Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith:  Topics:  Their new book, "The End Of Astronauts: Why Robots Are The Future Of Exploration" which proposes human spaceflight BLEO should be done by the private sector, not by government.  Our guests discuss this proposal on this specific program.

Joshua Carlson, Sunday, 4-24-22, #3858, Time:  1 hour 29 minutes

Guest:  Joshua Carlson; Topics:  The author used his recent book, “Spacepower Ascendant: Space Development Theory and a New Space Strategy” to discuss national security space, space settlement, space policy, competition, timelines and more.

Guest:  Mary Roach;  Topics:  We discussed Mary's new book and first young reader's book, "Packing For Mars For Kids."  In addition, our guest fielded questions about settlement, gravity, living on the Moon or Mars, kids and pets in space, a full kids spacesuit and more.

Guests: John Batchelor, George Dvorsky, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Competition for lunar human landers.  

Guest:  Kasper Kubica; Topics:  The concept put forth by our guest for luxury $10 million condos in free space, the gravity RX, markets and demand, space settlement capital and investments, timelines, lunar and Martian space settlement.

Guest. Dr. Brian Green; Topics:  Our guest discussed his new book "Space Ethics" along with leading us through a more detailed discussion about ethical issues for humans developing and living in space.  See the blog post for information about his book and the Table of Contents for his book.

Guest:  Dr. Namrata Goswami; Topics:  US Space Policy, China and space, the Biden Space Policy, space competition, competing space visions, space race with China, the U.S. Space Force and much more.  Note that this was about a 2 hour discussion covering multiple topics with multiple callers plus email questions.

Note:  Mr. Batchelor has notified me that this file was lost, thus there will be no archived program.  Please use the summary below to reference our one segment Hotel Mars discussion.  Thanks.  David

Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Grinspoon, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Mars and the new Perseverance rover  

Guest:  Dr. Les Johnson; Topics:  Solar sail propulsion and missions plus his science fiction and his new edited book "Stellaris: People of the Stars" which speculates as to what humans will be like when we go to the stars.