He follows the history of how human beings have looked up and tried to figure out what exactly is going on up there - from early humans sitting under the night sky making sense of patterns, to ancient astronomy, Greek cosmology, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, telescopes, modern space exploration, and where all of that leaves us now.
Along the way he talks about how people assign meaning to the sky, why the universe keeps getting bigger every time somebody invents a new telescope, whether screens have quietly become our modern version of the night sky, and why watching scale-of-the-universe videos was probably a mistake.
Also featuring: William Shatner, black holes, mild existential discomfort, and a continued commitment to never personally going to space.
This is the Human History of Space.
Host: Brad Cartner
Show Producer: Greg O’Brien
Sound Engineer: Derek Welsman
Music: Brad Cartner
Officer Wilfert: Adam Carter
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