Making New Worlds Podcast
1) Ep 14: Book Announcement
A special five-years-later bonus episode, with updates on a few projects that might interest listeners of Making New Worlds. You can preorder Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in ...Show More
2) Ep 13: Should We Settle Space?
For the last episode of Making New Worlds, we ask the question we skipped at the very beginning: Should we settle space? Featuring answers by many of our guests from previous episodes. The transcript ...Show More
3) Ep 12: What Do You Think?
What do you think about the space settlement ethics topics we’ve covered in the podcast so far? This episode includes comments and feedback from members of the Making New Worlds audience. The transcri...Show More
4) Ep 11: Which Way Is Mecca?
How will people of faith adapt their religious practices to the space environment? How will our cultural values help us adapt to life in space? Christian theologian Michael Waltemathe and Muslim theol...Show More
5) Ep 10: What If I Get Sick?
How can we prepare for medical emergencies in a space settlement? What equipment should we bring? What kinds of doctors? When resources are limited, who do we decide to treat first? Physician Ken Iser...Show More
6) Ep 09: What If There’s Already Life on Mars?
How do we make sure we don’t bring harmful extraterrestrial microorganisms back to Earth from space? How do we keep our Earth microbes from contaminating potentially habitable worlds like Mars or Euro...Show More
7) Ep 08: Should We Make Mars More Like Earth?
How do we balance out our hunger for resources in space with the desire to preserve the space environment for future generations? Will something inherently valuable and important be lost when we start...Show More
8) Ep 07: What If I Want to Have Kids?
How do we sustain a stable population in our future space settlements? Do we require settlers to reproduce? How do we limit population growth when resources are scarce? What rights do children born i...Show More
9) Call for Feedback
Making New Worlds will resume in 2018, but today we have a quick announcement to make about our upcoming audience feedback episode. The transcript for this announcement is below. Hi, everyone! This is...Show More
10) Ep 06: Who’s in Charge?
Who will make the decisions in future space settlements? Will they be governed remotely by nations on Earth? Will settlements develop their own local governments? How will conflicts between settlement...Show More