Name: Starships and Walls : Which Shall We Build?
Uploaded: 2025-07-25T14:56:00+00:00
Duration: 18 min 41 s
Description: Faster than light travel may be impossible, but then again proclaiming absolutes based on the understanding of a particular time has a spotty record. But even if we are limited to sublight travel by t

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Faster than light travel may be impossible, but then again proclaiming absolutes based on the understanding of a particular time has a spotty record. But even if we are limited to sublight travel by the fundamental nature of the universe, we as a civilization have several macro-level choices to make, one of the most significant being which foundational concept do we want to build on future on: Ships? Or walls?

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00:00 Intro
01:50 The Athenian Sailor
05:25 Frontiers
06:00 Assuming it’s Impossible
07:26 Picard Without Starfleet?
09:40 Culture over Economics
15:28 Founders of Worlds