The geopolitical space race - with Tim Marshall

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The race for dominance in space is shaping the future of humanity. Join bestselling author and international diplomacy expert, Tim Marshall, as he lifts the lid on the geopolitical space race.
Watch the Q&A here: • The geopolitical space...
Buy Tim's book 'The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World' here: geni.us/4qKCW
00:00 Intro
01:59 The history of space and science
13:00 How this led to geopolitics
16:25 International relations in space
21:27 How geopolitics is now affecting astropolitics
25:22 Lagrange Points and the geography of space
28:45 War and how it plays out in space
30:01 How Elon Musk’s Starlink system affected astropolitics
32:56 The role of drones in geopolitics
35:04 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) - is it coming back?
36:07 Space debris and dual use satellites
38:16 Treaties and laws for outer space
40:42 The benefits of space exploration and technology
43:46 The future of technology and exploration on the moon
48:55 How long will it be until we are colonising space?
Renowned for his works 'Prisoners of Geography' - a New York Times and Sunday Times #1 bestseller - and 'The Power of Geography'. Tim explores the new geopolitical realities of space and its impact on the global political landscape in the next fifty years. Topics include the new space race, great-power rivalry, technology, economics, and war, and how they are set to shape human history.
This talk was filmed at the Ri on Tuesday 13 June 2023.
Timothy John Marshall is a British journalist, author, and broadcaster, specialising in foreign affairs and international diplomacy. Marshall is a guest commentator on world events for the BBC, Sky News and a guest presenter on LBC, and was formerly the diplomatic and foreign affairs editor for Sky News.
He has written seven books including 'Prisoners of Geography' - a New York Times Best Seller and #1 Sunday Times bestseller. He also released a children's illustrated version of this book in 2019, nominated for Waterstones Book of the Year. Other titles include 'The Power of Geography', a #2 Sunday Times bestseller; 'Shadowplay: The Inside Story Of Europe's Last War', and 2018 Sunday Times bestseller 'Divided: Why We’re Living In An Age Of Walls'.
Marshall is founder and editor of news web platform thewhatandthewhy.com, a site for journalists, politicians, foreign affairs analysts, and enthusiasts to share their views on world news events.
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@clives344 4 ай бұрын

Good to see Tim Marshall again i miss him on Sky News. He really knows his subjects. He stands apart from others.

@vladimirp2674 10 ай бұрын

Couldn't guess Hipparchus, but sure he would be quite surprised if he watched this lecture by himself. And of course i believe that we might be amazed about 100 years passed from this very moment to witness next generation Ri lecture. Excellent job.

@burnere633 10 ай бұрын

SO many audio skips during the history section! :( I hope it doesn't recur throughout the talk.

@nandfednu3502 10 ай бұрын

the sound track for those booster landings was spot on

@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667 10 ай бұрын

Awesome and great video as always say.

@opperhoofdgeilebizon 10 ай бұрын

Interesting talk once again 😊

@user-pw7zk9hh4e 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful talk and talker.

@lionelfischer8240 10 ай бұрын

Nice talk. Thank you.

@funkymonkey1972 5 ай бұрын

Mind opening Tim! Thanks pal

@TheRoyalInstitution 10 ай бұрын

If you liked this talk about the geopolitics of space, you can watch the Q&A with Tim here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYOsdqKmmbuaepI.

@lyrigageforge3259 4 ай бұрын

The speaker asked who that guy in the white shirt in the black and white photo is. Sure didn't know - but he is Russian alright. That tunic shirt is so very Russian traditional style shirt you can pretty much get. And nope I am not Russian, just from a country on the border.

@zobko 8 ай бұрын

The joke about the internet cutoff in Ukraine was misplaced. Often foreigners aren't fully avare of the circumstances of the war. The internet is crucial for communication in dangerous and unpredictable times, so it's presence or absence might cost someone's life. Just saying that war jokes is a precarious topic to play with 30:15

@joaopedrobarbosacoelho455 10 ай бұрын

6:15 They worked out the Earth had curvature, but guessed it was spherical for metaphysical reasons. Turned out they were right. Maybe the Earth was a doughnut.

@korbendallas5318 10 ай бұрын

3:20 I disagree, at least I can't see what is logical about a powerful tree-pusher. It's human though, we tend to put agency on things that don't deserve it.

@MrTylerStricker 10 ай бұрын

Am I the only person who thinks Mr. Marshall looks like Sam Neill?

@soeinspast4096 10 ай бұрын

audio is kinda eh

@gubocci 9 ай бұрын

Tapaisimmeko markkina-aukiolla, hyvä herrasväki?

@sarcasmo57 10 ай бұрын

Very informative. Love the bad jokes.

@alex79suited 8 ай бұрын

The moon is a baby step, and Mars is putting one foot in front of the other. And that's how these places should be looked at stepping into the vacuum. If we are truly going to go into deep deep space, we will need to leave from there. Once we start really operating in the vacuum space, we will start to understand that this is what we are supposed to be doing, not warring with each other, but reaching for the star's. There right there, we can see them. If we can see them, then we can reach them. It's going to take everyone every Nation chipping in whatever they can. Failure isn't final, it isn't the end, it's our ability to get back up and try again that will get our species where we need to go. And we need to go let there be no doubt. If our species is to live on, then it's the vacuum space or it's nowhere. Let's stop the wars, we have a common goal. Just look up tonight and it will show itself. To those countries fighting right now, tonight look up that's the reason it needs to stop that's the common ground it's right there, just look up. Peace ✌️ from Canada, eh. Great video

@TheAlskdfj 9 ай бұрын

The editing is bad in this video. Cuts off at so many points.

@tibchy144 2 ай бұрын

Inserting all those unpleasant noises was a really bad idea.

@RFC3514 10 ай бұрын

A lot of his rhetorical questions are probably meant to sound clever or funny, but just don't. The reason why I don't count down when starting my car is that I'm the only person involved in the process. When I'm trying to start something (or perform part of a complex process) in sync with someone else, I _do_ count down (or up, to a previously agreed number, like "press that on 2 and we both push on 3"). Even small children understand (and do) that. Also, his description of far-fetched theistic myths as "logical" suggests he doesn't understand what "logical" means. You could say they're _as good an "explanation" as any other_ (when you don't really have a clue), but there's nothing _logical_ about them. They're not even _meant_ to be logical (the whole point was to claim special knowledge that made the priests / rulers / elders superior; if it was something that could be arrived at through _logic_ then they wouldn't be special). Speaking of logic, saying that "he would have thought boats were falling off the edge of the world" as they slowly sank below the horizon is completely illogical. First, they would be "falling" incredibly slowly (no one would associate such a slow movement with "falling", based on experience). Second, those boats _came back._ So it makes zero sense to associate visual evidence of the Earth's curvature with "boats falling off the edge". Those are two separate concepts. And then you have some historically dubious references, such as crediting Copernicus for the heliocentric model when it had in fact been devised 1800 years earlier by Aristarchus, and ignoring the fact that neither of them describes planetary orbits correctly, and the claim that the Sun is at the centre of the universe is just as wrong (or just as right) as claiming the Earth is at the centre of the universe. In fact, any observer is at the centre of the observable universe, that's just a consequence of relativity and the Big Bang. It's just that treating the Sun as a fixed point makes simple calculations of solar system orbits a lot easier (but the full maths works no matter what you pick as the "centre"). And of course there is such a thing as "up" and "down", "north" and "south", and so on. Directions being _relative_ (to the Earth, in this case) isn't the same as "not existing". And then we get a diagram showing the Karman line in _miles,_ with such a specific number (62) that it completely obfuscates the point. There is no altitude where "space starts". It's not about "nailing it", it's about understanding that the atmosphere thins out gradually. At 10 km it's still pretty dense, at 1000 km it's practically non-existent, so the transition area is generally considered to be around the order of magnitude that sits between those two (in SI units): 100 km. Show the same chart in SI units (going 10 - 100 - 1000 - 10000) and that becomes clear (numbers are just rounded to the closest order of magnitude). Label it in medieval units and people assume there must be something scientifically special about "62".

@ingoos 10 ай бұрын

If there is antimatter with atomic particles of opposite electrical charges.... Then, i would suppose that the darkness of space is actually negative light.

@filipe5722 9 ай бұрын

Photons are their own antiparticles, so no.

@pedromoreno4430 3 ай бұрын

So much control in the origin. Yo can control this, you can control that, you can know things ahead of others, you can control not only the world and the people in it, but the whole universe.... What a bunch of psychopaths.

@808bigisland 10 ай бұрын

Antique lecture. We’ve seen UAP. We are subject to galactic policies and politics. Terran politics are now secondary.

@filipe5722 9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@Starfishtroopers 10 ай бұрын

Ignoring UAP in this discussion is showing the stigma.

@filipe5722 10 ай бұрын

Not really. The subject is geopolitics in space.

@_aakashpandey 9 ай бұрын

Meanwhile Indians : 🦗

@AmakSevn 10 ай бұрын

If aliens arrive they would find the concept of nations to be very funny, single species diving themselves into imaginary borders on a rock floating in endless space thinking how great that is.

@mateusneto6687 10 ай бұрын

Our the aliens could be in a similar state of affairs. Competition is a driving force of nature. They could not even have a homeplanet anymore, our be machines. Any alternative is plausible.

@whcolours9995 10 ай бұрын

Decentralized civilizational control groups are the opposite of funny.

@AmakSevn 10 ай бұрын

@@mateusneto6687 Marvel fan? :P

@RFC3514 10 ай бұрын

The notion of an entire species _not_ forming local groups on a planet would be _far_ more surprising. All social animals form tribes. Even countries divide themselves further, into regions, counties, municipalities, and so on. It's a perfectly logical way to make sure decisions that affect a specific area are made primarily by the people who live in that area.

@saladje 8 ай бұрын

@@AmakSevnreddit moment