Sitting on Explosions

Join us for episode number 18 of the Hyperthesis where we focus on rockets and space exploration. We delve into the simple physics and highly complex engineering of launching spacecrafts after going over a brief history of rocketry. During this discussion, we also talk about the future of space travel, alien life, and the philosophy behind humankind's desire to go to space. Our story focuses around the details about the first manned mission to the moon, and before all of this, we talk about possible benefits and drawbacks of large-scale energy storage systems like pumped-storage hydroelectricity.