Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures | Lex Fridman Podcast #271
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Foundation Trilogy
Buy on Amazon"What were your favorite sci-fi authors when you were growing up? Probably Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy."
Seveneves
Buy on Amazon"These little robots would crawl, just like in Neal Stephenson's Seveneves; they crawl along the outside of the spacecraft looking for micrometeorite punctures or gas leaks or other faults and defects."
Seveneves
Buy on Amazon"There's another idea out of Neal Stephenson, Seveneves, actually, where these arklets were decentralized spacecraft that could form and dock little temporary space stations with each other, then separate and go off on their way, adopting a decentralized approach to living in space."
2001
Buy on Amazon"The future of space habitats is one of intelligent structures—maybe not all the way to HAL from the 2001: A Space Odyssey reference that scares people about a habitat having a mind of its own—but certainly, we're building systems now where the habitat has sensing technology that allows it to communicate its basic functions."