Settle the Stars: The Science of Space Exploration
Exploring and terraforming Mars will be the greatest scientific and engineering challenge in the history of our species. From landfall and building the first cities to manipulating an entire planetary environment, this podcast will dive into the science of space exploration, settlement and terraforming! Join Alexander Winn, creator of TerraGenesis and founder of Edgeworks Entertainment, as he walks you through the real science behind his hit indie terraforming game, TerraGenesis, and how those same concepts will work in real life.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 52
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
”2001: A Space Odyssey” Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Written by Arthur C. Clarke
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke embarked on the project of a lifetime: a realistic cinematic speculation of where space exploration could be at the dawn of the 21st century, with the creation o…
00:22:16 |
Fri 13 May 2022
”Contact” Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Based on the Novel by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan’s research and the scientific and philosophical questions that propelled his career came together in the only work of fiction he would produce, "Contact", which was published in 1985. Lace…
00:18:53 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
”Interstellar” Directed by Christopher Nolan
It was not until 2014 that audiences were first shown a realistic visualization of a
black hole in a major motion picture. Those visuals came courtesy of the efforts of Christopher Nolan, who sought …
00:21:21 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
”The Martian” Directed by Ridley Scott Based on the Novel by Andy Weir
In our new season, we are kicking off our first episode with "The Martian" a novel written by Andy Weir, and turned into a blockbuster film by director, Ridley Scott. Lacey Hannan retraces Mark Watne…
00:20:30 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
Season 2 Trailer
Alexander Winn introduces our newest host, Lacey Hannan. This season on Settle the Stars, we will be covering the scientific accuracy behind books like “The Martian” and films like “Interstellar”, “C…
00:02:06 |
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Earth
Compared to many of the worlds we’ve visited, there is no doubt about it – Earth is very much alive. Alexander Winn takes us on our last stop for Season 1, home.
Stay tuned as we take a break to ge…
00:25:37 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Earth‘s Moon
Today’s journey is a refreshingly short one: a mere 238,855 miles from Earth. In terms of cosmic distance, that’s right on our doorstep, or closer even – right off the tip of our nose. Alexander Win…
00:24:25 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
The Sun
The importance of our Sun is hard to overstate, not just as an essential foundation for life here on Earth, but as an agent for order and stability in a system of innumerable objects from the massive…
00:26:24 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Exoplanets - A Whole New World
In the last few decades, we have learned that most of these stars are hosts to their own systems of planets, just as the Sun is to our Solar System. We call these worlds exoplanets, or extrasolar pl…
00:26:01 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
Settle The Stars Presents: The ”You Have My Sword” Podcast with Krysti Pryde
This week Alexander Winn presents Edgeworks Nebula's newest show "You Have My Sword" where host Krysti Pryde talks all thing Tolkien from The Hobbit to the Silmarillian. In this episode she deep dive…
00:13:40 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
The Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt, & Oort Cloud: God‘s Snowballs
For almost as long as astronomers have been fascinated by the bright, shining points of light in the sky, they’ve also wondered about the space between them. After all, smaller objects had been know…
00:20:02 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
Pluto & the Dwarf Planets - Rocks of Unusual Size
Alexander adventures on to the large bodies circling our Sun at the farthest reaches of our Solar System that could almost be – or in Pluto’s case, once were – considered planets, with a range of uni…
00:22:50 |
Fri 13 Aug 2021
Moons of Uranus & Neptune
Alexander Winn will be getting a closer look at some of the most often-overlooked features of Uranus & Neptune: their moons and rings. While the planets themselves posed quite a challenge to spot in…
00:24:13 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Uranus & Neptune
We are continuing our journey farther out into the solar system as we visit the last two planets on our visitation list: Uranus and Neptune. Today we’ll explore the surprising differences between the…
00:19:59 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Moons of Saturn
Today we’ll devote a full episode to revealing some of the unique characteristics and scientist-stumping quirks of Saturn's Moons. Buckle up, Alexander has a lead foot this episode.
You can catc…
00:25:00 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Saturn - Put a Ring on It
In this episode, Alexander Winn steers us toward Saturn. This gas giant may not hold as many records as its giant neighbor Jupiter, but the dazzling ring system that the planet is known for make it a…
00:21:21 |
Fri 16 Jul 2021
Moons of Jupiter
Alexander Winn catapults us to the Moons of Jupiter. There, we will find hints of rich resources and potentially life-supporting regions that bode well for possible human exploration, and we’ll be ta…
00:25:14 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
Jupiter - King of the Planets
Alexander Winn rockets us to Jupiter where we attempt to wrap our brains around a behemoth of a planet. With the aid of thousands of years of human observation from afar and remotely, we can do our b…
00:23:30 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
Mars - Our Future Home
Alexander Winn takes us on a full tour of Mars and the race to set foot on it. Our trip to Mars will take us face-to-face with some of the most massive geological features and mysterious eccentriciti…
00:21:32 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
Venus - The Nightmare Next Door
Alexander Winn takes us on a trip to Venus to "unearth" the power that the planet has had on humans for thousands of years. We touch on the history tied to the planet as well as what a future would l…
00:24:14 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
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