The FarView Observatory is a NIAC project that's a giant self-building radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. In this interview, I'm discussing the details of the project with Dr Ronald Polidan who's managing the project. We also talk about the role of the Moon in the future of lunar exploration and how close we are to sending Von Neumann probes all over the Universe.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:16 Current state of lunar exploration
00:03:22 What is the FarView Observatory
00:11:20 Step-by-step procedures
00:22:40 Limits of the project
00:35:08 Science objectives of FarView
00:47:17 Role of the Moon in future exploration
00:51:29 Von Neumann probes
01:00:55 What's next
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