This week I decided to sit down and listen to a blog before going to bed late at night. I listened to a blog titled, “The Next Frontier” it was published by Ted Radio Hour. This podcast was about if the colonization on mars or on other plants was possible. This podcast focused on the technology we would need to invent for this to happen. The most shocking part of this podcast to me that most of what we need we had already invented, and it was predicted everything else we would need will be invited within the next ten years. I thoroughly enjoyed this podcast as it brought up many things that would be a problem about colonizing on other plants that I had never thought of. A good example of this was when the podcast was talking about Mars not having a strong ozone later like earth. This means a lot more harmful radiation from the sun reaches the surface of mars then it does on earth. We would have to invent a way to get around this radiation. The author demonstrated two ideas, we would have to make suits that people could wear that could protect them or genetically modify people to be able to take in the radiation. Another interesting topic talked about on the blog would be the travelling to get to Mars. This would be a huge space ship with all its food freeze dried to limit the weight on board and it would reuse water. That means that human waste would be cleaned and be drank or used in another way again. Water weighs a lot; therefore, you have to limit the amount on board, so it must be reused. I would say overall, I enjoyed the talk, learned a lot, and loved how many guest speakers were on it. However, near the end I did get a little bored it was very long, and the host was not the most exciting person to listen to.
There was a lot of different advertisements in this podcast. After each break, the host would read off a list of the sponsors for that episode. The advertisements in this episode were Yahoo Finance live, advertisements for other TED Talks, Stanford health, Moo a business printing company, and Hulu. I feel that these ads were related to the show even if not in direct ways. None of them are about space travel, but they are related to what TED Talks bring in general. Yahoo Finance and Moo are both business related company’s and TED talks apple a lot of people in the field of business. For Stamford health also applies to lots of TED Talks as there is a lot of them that are medical or about future ideas for medicine. Hulu and the ads for other TED Talks make sense as these are other things you can watch or listen to later in your free time. I also feel that these ads appear on many episodes of TED Talks and this is not there first time on their podcast. I believe they are TED Talks regular sponsors.
One company that I think would have been another good advertisement is Amazon. People who listen to broadcasts are probably on the internet a lot. This podcast was also on Spotify which a subscription base serves just like Amazon Prime. If someone is willing to pay monthly for Spotify they might also be willing to pay for Amazons subscription too. Plus, TED Talks bring in a lot of business listeners so if Amazon could market their free delivery with prime and how it would be nice for business people with busy work schedules.
Overall, I highly enjoyed this TED Talk and learned many things about the new technology coming out for space travel. The podcast discussed the way they would be able to bring food, water and shelter there. I found it very interesting how we would first send robots there to make all the shelters for people before they would even arrive. So, when people do show up everything will already be built for them. The technology we need to begin to colonize other world is ridicules but it is turning from science fiction into reality.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KXFojmO0ejqeaMpFlG8BO?si=Oh5qeCRlSm-m-Q7FQO_ajA
Ryan Baldwin 