[Q&A] Planet Size Limit, Solar Gravitational Lens, China's Telescopes

How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens? How would we approach mining asteroids? How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system? What is the size limit for a planet? All this and more in this week's Q&A.

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• 00:00 Start


• 00:52 [Tatooine] What is the size limit for a planet?


• 03:51 [Coruscant] How complex must a telescope be to use the solar gravitational lens?


• 08:19 [Hoth] How would we approach mining asteroids?


• 10:42 [Naboo] How to detect magnetic fields outside the solar system?


• 13:49 [Kamino] Which telescopes did China fund?


• 15:56 [Bespin] Will we discover what's outside of our Universe?


• 19:06 [Mustafar] Oumuamua: artificial or natural?


• 21:39 [Alderaan] Planets caught in binary stars' Lagrange points?


• 26:12 [Dagobah] What's my take on artificial versus organic intelligence?


• 28:31 [Yavin] What is my preferred answer to the Fermi Paradox?

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