[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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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.

🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday

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?

📺 VIDEO VERSION

https://youtu.be/zLCwPNbm6WY

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