Space, with the hard parts left in.

There is no shortage of space content. Most of it falls into one of two buckets: the render — a beautiful animation of a city on Mars, no engineering attached — or the debunk, which is correct and leaves you with nothing.

This channel sits in between. The premise is that living off Earth is a genuinely hard engineering and biological problem, that real people are making real progress on it, and that the progress is more interesting than either the fantasy or the takedown.

How an episode gets made

Research happens live, on stream, in public. Ideas go into a ranked queue; whatever's at the top gets worked through on air — sources open, papers read, arguments checked. Things that survive that get promoted into a proper episode. Things that don't, don't.

It means you can watch the sausage being made, and it means the finished episode has an audit trail behind it.

The rules

• Sources on screen. If a number is quoted, its origin is shown. If the source is weak, that gets said.
• Uncertainty stated as uncertainty. "We don't know" is a legitimate finding and gets aired as one.
• Corrections published, not buried. Getting something wrong is survivable. Quietly editing it isn't.
• No hype cycles. An announcement is not an achievement.

Get in touch

Corrections, guest suggestions, and "you've got this wrong and here's the paper" all go to [email protected].

Part of something bigger

Humans in Space is one of four channels under Divergent Futures. They share a method — problem, pathway, hope — and not much else.