The Cities That Will Orbit Jupiter: How Humanity Will Colonize the Outer Solar System

Humanity's expansion into the outer Solar System won't look like science fiction imagines. Instead of building cities on frozen moons, our first civilizations beyond Mars may live inside enormous rotating space habitats orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. In this episode of Entropy Rising, we explore what life beyond the asteroid belt could really be like. We discuss asteroid mining, O'Neill cylinders, cycler spacecraft, the economics of deep-space settlements, how entirely new cultures could emerge...